For the sake of the children we are to reach out into the world, seek mercy, plead for human rights. The children under the thumb of Herods remind us what nativity is about. In this renewing time of year, choose an evil you will work to cast out. Find a Herodian enemy to weaken, to destroy. Find a child, a cause, a condition that has a Herod towering over it, and be a Christ there, be a savior, a redeemer, a mediator.
Love is the weapon.
Love is the greatest force. The coming of the Christ Child is about a love that is greater than fear, that lives longer than evil. Walid can see Herod's empty castle from his home. He knows evil does not live forever. Make us obedient and devout.