Thursday, December 20, 2012

JIM CAIN



Good Morning!



On this day in 1957, while spending the Christmas Holidays at Graceland, his home in TN, rock-and-roll star, Elvis Presley, receives his draft notice for the U.S. Army.  Though fans sent thousands of letters to the army asking for him to be spared, Elvis would have none of it. He was sworn in as an army private in Memphis on March 24, 1958.



After basic training, Elvis served in Friedberg, Germany, where an army buddy of Presley's introduced him to a young girl named Priscilla, whom Elvis would marry some years later. Ironically, the once despised singer was now seen as a model for all young Americans. After he got his polio shot from an army doctor on national television, vaccine rates among the American population shot from 2 percent to 85 % by the time of his discharge.



Thousands of years ago, another young man received a government notice. One that decreed he was to return to his birth place and register with the census. He too was accompanied by a young girl on his journey, but her name was not Priscilla, it was Mary.

By being obedient to the edict of King Herod, Joseph and Mary would play their part as role models in the birth of a king. No, not the king of rock and roll, but the King of Kings, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.