oligopistos*: 11/01/2005 - 11/30/2005
"Maybe our nativity scenes have everything wrong. Maybe the shepherds weren't on some snowy hill. Maybe the three wise men did not show up that night. And maybe we would be quite shocked were we to see an honest depiction of what really happened at the birth of Jesus. I imagine it was a real mess. I imagine Joseph and Mary didn't have sentimental memories of that night. I imagine they were probably on their last fumes of energy and hope, with nothing to go on but the words of an angel months earlier and wondering, "Was that a dream? Did that happen? Was it all my imagination? Was all of that talk about Emannuel, God-With-Us really real? Is this really God?"
go, again, and read it in its entirety.
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