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1. Crying baby keeps locals awake.
2. Candle merchants complain of dropping sales due to bright light in sky.
3 Residents complain of camel dodo in streets as wise men arrive in town.
4 Sheep run wild in hills as shepards have singsong outside old stable.
I would love to hear anyothers.
It's a boy! Mum and baby stable.
A new godson? No, it's God's Son.
Shepherds say 'halo' to royal visitor.
Overcrowding is virgin on the ridiculous, claim council officials.
Mary Christmas, everyone.
In reality, I imagine that God chose Joseph for his good sense. I think Joseph passed the gold on to a fellow-Jewish banker who remained in the background to fund things like
1. the flight into Egypt,
2. training the boy to be a high-class artisan,
3. and sending him to study the scriptures in a school for rabbis (teachers).
The frankincense and myrrh could have been sold in Bethlehem to cover immediate expenses.
It's all in the Book , if you bother to look.
It was my headline and Patty kindly explained where the gold had probably gone (along with directions to the reference book)!
I wrote a story on the theme a few years ago but no one at my writing class was able to come up with any ideas - so thank you, Patty!!
Social Services ignore plight of family sleeping in cowshed.
Sick Father Christmas sends 3 kings to deliver new baby's presents.
Shepherds flock to stable where Mary had a little lamb (lamb of God etc...)
Tiny desert village snowed under with arrival of Madonna and family.
Three wise men test out the first GPRS/satnav system.
Kings desert their kingdoms to follow the stars.
Nazareth Gazette - Jan 1st 0000AD: Confusion as Christmas Day clashes with New Years Day.
There is only one reality about Christmas that matters - the baby called Jesus born to the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem about 2,000 years ago, grew up to be crucified about 30 years later.
For what crime exactly?
For drumming it into the heads of his followers that he was Jesus, the Son of God.
And if you cannot take a simple miracle (i.e. personal intervention by God) like the virgin birth, then you could have real problems when you get to Easter.
"Queen goes wild as star-gazing hubby gives gold away to peasants."
http://ecard.ashland.edu/2004admission/index.html
She called the email "Lovely Christmas Link" - and it is.