In my Prayer Journal...

"This is the real stable where Jesus was born. The filthiest place in the world was the first room of the only pure man ever born of woman. The Son of Man, who was to be devoured by wild beasts calling themselves  men, had as his first cradle the manger where the animals chewed the cud of the miraculous flowers of spring.  


It was not by chance that Christ was born in a stable. What is the world but an immense stable where men produce filth and wallow in it? Do they not daily change the most beautiful, the purest, the most divine things into excrement?"  


          - Giovanni Papini

(And Christmas means that God finds a way to change it all back -watch the children tell the tale.  LB)