When God Gave Skeeter Davis a Christmas Miracle
Posted: Friday, December 25, 2009
by Joel Kontinen
http://joelkontinen.blogspot.com/
"Miracles, I guess, still happen now and then." This is the message of a song made popular by country singer Jim Reeves (1924-1964) and recorded by many others, including Elvis Presley.
Some sincere Christians, however, think that the age of miracles ended with the death of the original apostles in the 1st century A. D.
Others continue to believe that God still occasionally gives us miracles. Country music star Skeeter Davis (1931-2004), known for her very popular rendering of End of the World, believed that we could pray to God for a miracle and get one.
However, just before Christmas, she got a note from someone who said he was Santa, explaining that he had run out of dolls before he reached Kentucky.
Little Mary Frances went into a barn to cry. She could not understand how Santa could have run out of dolls just before reaching her. After pouring her heart out in despair, she suddenly noticed that she was not alone. Animals a dog, three cats, a cow, a goat, pigs, two horses, chickens and roosters had gathered round her.
A decade later Mary Francis assumed the name Skeeter Davis. She became one of the best known female country singers. Now, five years after her death, she still has fans around the world.
In December 1997 when she was battling cancer, she gave an interview for Country Weekly Magazine, explaining what she learnt when she was ten:
" I cried with all the animals. I cried because I didn't understand - and that's when it came to me. I was lying on the hay, and I realized that Jesus didn't come as a king in a robe with gold and diamonds and jewelry. Instead, he came as a babe in swaddling clothes. It came like that to me - it came as a story of faith. That belief and faith is what got me all the dolls that I have now."
Skeeter did get a doll the next Christmas when she was eleven and later her fans sent her dozens if not hundreds of dolls. But she regarded her barn episode as a real miracle that made her realise the true meaning of the first Christmas when Jesus Christ " made himself nothing" (Philippians 2:7).
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