Thursday, December 18, 2014

JIM CAIN

Good Morning!

On a December day in 1957, while spending the Christmas Holidays at

Graceland, the king of rock-and-roll, 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% 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 birthplace 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!