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    The Three Wise Women: A Christmas Reflection
    The Three Wise Women: A Christmas Reflection
    The Three Wise Women: A Christmas Reflection
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    The Three Wise Women: A Christmas Reflection

    By Christin Ditchfield

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    Mary, Elizabeth, and Anna. Three very different women, at different ages and stages of life. One single, one married, one widowed. One just beginning to experience life. One coping with the challenges and changes of midlife. And one coming close to the end of her life.

    But these women had one thing in common. They chose to submit to God's will, even when it didn't seem to make sense. Take a closer look at their words and actions, and see how each woman had a unique purpose in God's great plan to bring His Son to earth.

    A willing heart, a hearing heart, and a faithful heart.

    The Three Wise Men, though mentioned only briefly in the Gospel of Matthew, are well-known characters in the Christmas story. But we know very little about them-not even their names, or if in fact there were three of them.

    But the Scriptures do teach us for certain about three wise women-Mary, mother of Jesus; Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist; and Anna, a prophetess who proclaimed the good news of Jesus' birth.

    Each woman played an important role in the Christmas story. They didn't give Jesus gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, as the wise men did. But they did offer Him their most precious possessions: their hearts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateSep 9, 2005
    ISBN9781433517341
    The Three Wise Women: A Christmas Reflection
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    Christin Ditchfield

     Christin Ditchfield is an author, conference speaker, and internationally syndicated radio host. As a professional freelance writer, Christin has written dozens of best-selling gospel tracts and hundreds of articles for national and international magazines. She is the author of more than sixty-seven books and blogs at ChristinDitchfield.com. 

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      The Three Wise Women - Christin Ditchfield

      Other Crossway books by

      CHRISTIN DITCHFIELD

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      The Three Wise Women

      Copyright © 2005 by Christin Ditchfield

      Published by Crossway Book

      A publishing ministry of Good News Publishers

      1300 Crescent Street

      Wheaton, Illinois 60187

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided by USA copyright law.

      Cover design: Josh Dennis

      Cover and Interior illustrations: Bernhard Oberdieck

      First printing, 2005

      Printed in the United States of America

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from Holy Bible: New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. The NIV and New International Version trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by International Bible Society. Use of either trademark requires the permission of International Bible Society.

      Scripture quotations indicated as from ESV are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations indicated as from KJV are taken from the King James Version.

      Scripture quotations indicated as from NLT are taken from Holy Bible: New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Ditchfield, Christin

      Three wise women : a Christmas reflection / Christin Ditchfield.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 1-58134-636-0 (hc : alk. paper)

      1. Christian women—Prayer-books and devotions—English.

      2. Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint—Meditations. 3. Elizabeth

      (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint—Meditations. 4. Anna

      (Biblical prophetess)—Meditations. 5. Jesus Christ—Nativity—

      Meditations. I. Title.

      BV4844.D58 2005

      232.91—dc22

      2005003641

      LB      13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05

      15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      This book is lovingly dedicated to three

      truly wise women, whose godly examples

      have inspired me all of my life—each in their

      own unique way:

      My mother and best friend,

      Bernice

      and my precious grandmothers,

      Joan Ditchfield and Doris Roberts

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      CHAPTER ONE

      MARY: A WILLING

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