“…unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 18:3).
There is a little book called “Underside of Heaven” in which the author describes a Nativity Scene one of his daughters drew when she was seven-years-old. “I’m sure the Good Lord Himself smiled as He looked down upon it,” said the author:
Above the stable shines an erratic Star of Bethlehem, and to one side an angel wearing a halo hovers happily on butterfly wings.
On the other side is the little donkey that carried Mary on her long journey. It too has a halo on its head.
The camel has three humps, so that all of the Wise Men can ride at once — sort of an Oriental Greyhound.
Mary, in her robe, kneels and watches in adoration. Joseph is at work — “like all fathers most of the time,” the little girl explained.
Jesus lies in the manger, His feet up in the air, “because…
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