And so it came to pass that a child was born in a stalled car in Charlottesville. And the angels sang under the viaduct of joy and peace on earth, good will to all. And a squad car stopped to see what was the matter, and saw the child and his Mexican parents huddled in the car with an expired license.
And when the officer saw the scene, he didn’t ask for identification or give the parents a ticket or turn them over to ICE. He held the child in his arms, invited the family into his warm squad car, and radioed ahead to his wife to prepare for them the room they had decorated for the infant child they had just lost.
And so it was that on Christmas in the year 2017, another child was born and cared for by strangers whose better angels ignored Herod’s reign of terror to make a home for the homeless God.
- Gordon C. Stewart, Chaska, MN, Christmas Day, 2017.
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Thanks Gordon! So sorry the love ushered into the world by Jesus the Christ still struggles the
overcome the evil.
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Don, Happy New Year! Struggle on, friend! The struggle is in the light; apathy and silence are in the dark. The Christ story is especially meaningful in this time of deep darkness, what I’m calling the State of Sin. -:)
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May that child continue to be blessed.
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Amen, Erin.
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Made my Christmas Day. Weeping with joy for the goodness I often don’t hang around long enough to see in people. And often in the most unexpected ways I am touched. Thanks Gordon—best present.
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Thank you, Barb. Since I can’t drop by for Christmas with the Kidders, glad I could send you a present. Merry Christmas to you and CA!
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Okay. NOW I’m crying. Because kindness seems to be such a rare thing these days.
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It’s downright counter-cultural, isn’t it, Marilyn? Glad it brought a tear or two and hope on of them was a tear of hope and gladness.
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Wow!! Awesome!!
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Thanks, Cynthia!
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Once again you call us, all of us, to confess our faith in our daily lives. Thanks be to God for unto us a life of love is made possible by an infant.
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Oops, caught the typo right after I hit the send button…..!!!! (apropo) Guess what I get for having the keyboard bouncing around on my lap. LOL
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Brought me to tears…. such an example of how we should be treating our fellow sojourners in our world today…. Thanks Gordon for posting this, so spropo for this Christmas day.
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