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[Intro Music Playing]
Do you collect something that brings you pleasure?
That will trigger a smile on your face when you look at them?
Can you guess what I collect?
I get great pleasure from looking at my roosters...
and they trigger a smile every time I look at them.
And in fact, sometimes when I walk in the dining room, early in the morning,
I will say to them, "Good Morning!"
And of course my husband laughs at me when I do that.
I want to welcome you to Gray Hair Talking...
and I want you to learn a little bit about Roosters...
as we look at, "The Dawn of a New Day."
Now I love roosters...as you can tell...
and I love the big ones, the middle-size ones...
and I even love the little tiny ones...
and look at this little tiny rooster, isn't he precious?
Now I've only collected roosters for a few years...
but I imagine my love of roosters stem from my childhood...
where chickens roamed the yard and a big rooster crowed every morning to wake us up.
I did a Google search to find out a little more about roosters...
and I found an article by David Garner, who explains the symbolic charm...
of the Rooster in many cultures.
David points out that there are two rooster traits that we all know.
One of course is the crowing at the dawn of a new day...
and it makes it a symbol of the daily victory of light over darkness...
and the triumph of good over evil.
Another trait that we all recognize of course is the red cone.
And this red cone makes it a symbol...
of the sun and even of Christ, the Light of the world...
who announced an end to spiritual darkness and despair.
In some cultures, the rooster is painted on doors to ward off evil spirits.
In the Middle Ages, the rooster became a popular Christian image on weather vanes...
and that continues until this day.
In fact, I have a rooster above the door on my little red barn in the back yard.
Not only did we find something on the Google search...
but when we do a Bible search, we learn about roosters as well.
We find the words of Jesus in Matthew 26 and Mark 14 and Luke 22...
where we can trace the source of the symbol of the rooster, back to the first century.
You see, in these 3 Gospels we read Jesus' prediction...
that the Apostle Peter would deny Him before the rooster crowed ...
and in fact Peter did just that. He denied Christ.
The crowing of the rooster at the dawn of a new day, has made it an emblem...
of the Christian's attitude of watchfulness, and readiness...
for the sudden return of Christ...
the resurrection of the dead, and the final judgment of mankind.
Now in this modern day, we should consider ourselves lucky...
if we get to hear a rooster crow.
Clearly, we all need a little rooster in our lives.
This is Rachel Solomon hoping the dawn of every new day...
will remind us to be watchful [music playing]...
looking for Christ's return and ready for the judgment day.
And I'm sending you blessings from Gray Hair Talking.
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