2017

            The shepherds were out in the fields tending to their flocks. These humble, lowly men had jobs that kept them away from their families – nomads who followed their flocks day and night. It was a poor, lonely life – a humble audience for the very first Christmas carol ever sung.

            I still marvel at the simplicity of Christ’s birth. Think about this … the God of the universe decided to send His only Son to Earth, and He decided to do it in the most humble way possible.  

That child asleep in a manger in Bethlehem so long ago is God’s gift to me and to you. It is God’s very presence among man. 

          I am the proud grandfather of eight grandchildren. They are all precious, and so much of what is good in them is attributable to the love and hard work of their mothers. 

Of all the places on earth for the Savior, the Son of God to be born, why did God choose Bethlehem?