If the Nativity were to happen today instead of so long ago, many in the Religious establishment of America would call Joseph a bum, and tell him to get a job....... and they would call a young, scared and pregnant Mary all sorts of awful names. The doors would slam on them today just as surely as the doors closed on them in Bethlehem. (Others in society would be urging young Mary to get an abortion and put this all behind her.)

What would you do?

In seeing the poor and needy of today, we have the chance to do what others did not do, so long ago. We can treat the vulnerable with love and respect, we can open the "Inn" of the Christian faith, inviting all to the Lord's gracious table, instead of excluding. We can choose to see people as men and women of worth, made in God's image, and in treating them with God's graciousness, we allow the miracle of Christ's advent to be born again within our hearts, and maybe in their lives.

What will you do?

Be blessed friends, and be a blessing to someone else,