One of my favorite Christmas carols is "A Cradle in Bethlehem." The chorus has the line, "A mother tonight is rocking a cradle in Bethlehem." Every year when I hear it, I am reminded that the conditions of Jesus' birth really weren't all that unusual and that millions of women are tonight in fact rocking cradles in similar conditions. Tonight and every night. Those children are every bit as holy and sacred as Jesus. The song reminds me every year that the people those children grow up to be are special too. We are all that special.
My hope today is that I (and you, too, if you wish) am able to take that idea into the rest of the year. Keeping Christmas in my heart.
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