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    The Innkeeper of Bethlehem
    The Innkeeper of Bethlehem
    The Innkeeper of Bethlehem
    Ebook63 pages33 minutes

    The Innkeeper of Bethlehem

    By Michael Hume

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    What is it we cherish?  

    What gives us delight?

    What fills us with pride

    As we blow out the light? 

    What fills us, indeed!  

    For is that not our aim?

    To fill ourselves up; 

    Is that not our game? 


    For each of us here's like 

    An inn on the pla

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherExpert Press
    Release dateNov 7, 2023
    ISBN9781956220681
    The Innkeeper of Bethlehem

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      The Innkeeper of Bethlehem - Michael Hume

      The Innkeeper of Bethlehem

      ISBN 978-1-956220-66-7 (Hardcover)

      ISBN 978-1-956220-68-1 (Digital)

      Copyright © 2023 by Michael Hume

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, solicit the publisher via the address below.

      Yuletime Publishing Company

      195 South Rancho Vista Drive

      Pueblo West, Colorado 81007

      www.firewordsmedia.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Scriptures are quoted from the Thompson Chain-Reference Bible 4th Edition (KJV), © 1964 by Kirkbride Bible Co., Inc., and are used with permission.

      Original illustrations by Sherry Olson, SOS Studios, Denver, Colorado

      Also by Michael Hume:

      The 95th Christmas (literary novel)

      The Christmas In Me (musical album)

      Look for The Innkeeper of Bethlehem in paperback and audiobook, Christmas 2025

      Foreword

      In the spirit of currently popular fiction, such as the series The Chosen, movies like Risen and The Nativity Story, and other works, this story is intended as a plausible reimagining of the birth and earthly life of Christ.

      The story is not meant to replace Scripture and is not intended to be a work of historical research. As an example of this, fictitious names have been assigned to various Biblical characters in an effort to make those characters real in the imagination of the reader.

      Readers are encouraged to read the Scriptures and to imagine how their own personal lives would have been affected had they been blessed to witness the magnificent birth and life of the King of Kings.

      I asked my expert illustrator, Sherry Olson, to create images from her own heart based on her reading of the manuscript and to do them in the style of Picasso’s Don Quixote. I think she nailed it. If anything in the art seems off, that’s my fault for asking for something out of the ordinary, not Sherry’s. Thanks, my friend.

      My sincere gratitude goes to Caleb DeLon and the entire team at Paperback Expert for their help in designing the book and getting it ready for the printers.

      My friends at BNI Action Partners and The Original Dickens Carolers have been gracious in supporting me and supplying me with ideas. Thanks, friends!

      Of course, I’m grateful to my wife, Kathryn, and to all of my children and grandchildren for feeding me a steady diet of inspiration. Thanks to you all!

      Finally, my deepest gratitude to my longtime friend and counselor, the Reverend John S. McCahan, for giving me a solid home-churched grounding in the Word and for glimpses into the mysteries of both this life and the next.

      Thank you.

      -Michael Hume

      Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem

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