Is it just me or didn’t Christmas used to feel like a couple of weeks of festivity and slower pace? Now it seems more harried, with fewer slow down moments with family. Not sure this is what the three wise men had in mind when they planned this whole thing.
Carry on.
I’ll give those guys a break, though. They were all crowded around a small wooden trough with a crying baby in an open-air lean-to, based on the pictures I’ve seen. I doubt the weather was conducive to planning future birthday celebrations.
Would today’s “woke” ideology crowd even tolerate an “all men” entourage to welcome Baby Jesus? I don’t care how much gold and frankincense they brought, one of them dudes would have to be a woman or at least non-binary in this day and age.
Don’t even get me started on them not throwing out their pronouns when they got there that night.
I tell you what is hard to find these days is frankincense. You can find a bag of weed in every town across America but finding some good old-fashioned frankincense will take a little effort. I suspect Foley or Brad Carl keep a little in the desk drawer, but I’ve never asked, seems personal.
Anyway, let me know if you got a guy.
This is the type of column that my mother used to proofread and send me an email back with something like, “I wish I’d done a better job of involving you in the church.” Let’s just assume that this is her fault and if you don’t like religious sarcasm, on the other side of this page Carl is probably writing about Christmas songs or Trump.
Honestly, it was probably not my mother’s fault. I have been fairly pragmatic all my life. I’m not sure I could ever get my head around the “virgin birth” concept. I certainly don’t want to disrespect anyone’s mother or the Holy Spirit that was credited with fathering the Child, but…..that seems like a typical cover story to me. Seems like a “damn, let’s write this story up about how it happened” moment, but again, I’m fairly pragmatic. You do you.
This was written in the Matthew and Luke portion of the Bible, so I’d probably check with those guys on how this whole thing went down. Again, I’m kind of pragmatic.
A little research tells me that the Bible never said there were three wise men and now this has me messed up. All these baby manger nativity scenes that have been set up for all these years could be wrong. Hobby Lobby gonna have to put a disclaimer on a whole bunch of figurine sets. This is unfortunate news to learn. Luckily this is a nice little loophole if you didn’t have enough spots for your congregation that wanted to stand out in the cold at your nativity display the next couple of weeks. Throw 5 or 10 wise men/women/other out there if you wish and your lawyer can adequately defend your position because of this omission from the Bible.
This may surprise you, but I have never been invited to be part of a Nativity scene at a local church. I wonder why? They do have a spot for an ox and donkey, you’d think I’d fit the donkey part well to some of you.
Republicans not gonna be happy that they couldn’t get an elephant in there. Probably have to see about some type of federal legislation to make that happen if the states can’t get to it. Maybe just pack the Supreme Court would be simpler path, I’m not an expert on such matters.
Anyway, Merry Christmas and such.
(Guy Speckman can be reached serving as an expert consultant at several local nativity scenes over the next couple of weeks)
