With Christmas here, I was thinking about Jesus's birth. I was so struck by all the Nativities this year. Jesus is laying on a bed of straw with all around admiring Him. I have a hard time believing that Mary was anxious to lay her baby down. I think she wanted to hold and love and protect her baby -- what an enormous responsibility this new mother had.
I have also become so sensitive to the Christmas songs about the birth of Christ. "Away in a Manger" is a song that I've always enjoyed, but I have to say, surely it is an American-written song, as only in America would we sing, "No crib for a bed." I really don't think Mary thought this was a crisis, but we sing about it as though that is what they would have to have as new parents.
Jesus was a homebirth and I bet his parents were cosleepers!
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