Tag: Christmas
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Mary marveled
Lost in the familiar story, I watch as Mary marvels. A noisy crowd of shepherds had just bumped and scuffed their way back out the door, leaving behind the odor of dirt and unwashed bodies. They hadn’t stayed long, only long enough to see her newborn baby in the manger. She slowly pieced together their disjointed chatterings. They said an angel had appeared in the night sky telling of the Messiah, then a host of angels joined him, shouting joyfully together. So impossible an event, but with the memory of the angel in her dream months ago, the glow of excitement on the shepherd’s faces and the animation of their words, she believed them. And marveled…