SUPERSTITION?
I remember as a young boy, one Christmas morning many years ago, going to church with my grandmother. She took me up to the crib and we knelt down for a moment and prayed. I noticed her taking a little straw from the manger and putting it in her purse. As we left church, she told me that now the infant Jesus would see to it that she would always have some money in her purse to be able to provide for her family. A lot of people would laugh at this or cry “superstition.” I see it in a different light. I see here a woman of simple, child- like faith. And I believe that it is time for us to retrieve some of this simple faith. It is time to realize that if we want peace in the world we must go to the Christ child and ask the Prince of Peace for that peace “which the world cannot give.” It…
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