Chapter Four
The shepherds could not be contained. They told everyone they saw about what happened to them the night before in the hills and finding the child in the stable. Most laughed at them. Too many nights in the wilderness made men crazy. Some did listen and came to see for themselves. Those who came found the stable busy with people scurrying about. The birth of a child was a big event. Women now attended Mary. They helped bathe the infant and wrapped him in swaddling clothes. As the first day of the child’s life stretched into the next, the news spread. A special child, born in the Inn’s stable in the town of Bethlehem. The star overhead. An omen of remarkable beauty. Who might this child be? Eight days later, Joseph presented him to the priests to be circumcised and as the angel had said, they called his name,
JESUS.
