Our kids were both given their own kids’ nativity set for their first Christmases. When they were old enough to play with them, they emptied the stables of the sheep, angels, and Holy Family and parked their Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends trains inside. Trains and the Thomas the Tank Engine stories were, in those days, more compelling than sheep, angels, and a particular story about a newborn babe. As we enter Advent this year, we might ask, what appeals to us more than smelly sheep and cutesy angels and a ragged couple traveling with a newborn? Is the Nativity story still relevant for us today? In the following days, if you read the accounts in this devotional guide, you will see that it still is.
—Rebecca Glancy
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