I read a great missionary story this morning that may re-arrange your nativity this Christmas. The missionary shared that in the move from America to the field in Asia, they were only able to carry one Christmas decoration, so they took their nativity set. Christmas season came and it was so empty of our Christmas traditions, but she reported the joy of setting out the nativity set. Each day after the housekeeper would arrange all the animals, shepherds and wise men in a circle with the baby Jesus in the center. She placed them in order thinking the housekeeper had dusted and did not know how to arrange them, but after several weeks of this re-arrangement she inquired and the housekeeper (who was one of very few believers in this village) insisted that Christ should always be the center of everything. Perhaps we too would reconsider how we arrange our nativity to reflect our own desire for Jesus to be the center!
Coach/PJ
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