A friend saw them and came over to their table to greet them. She's taking care of him until the party's over. It wouldn't have been any fun with him along. Yet, when you stop to think about it, that's no more foolish than going through the Christmas season, with all of its festivities, without remembering the One whose birth we are supposed to be honoring. And yet we know it happens.
Many people never get it.
They're impressed by the trinkets, but they miss the triumph of what happened that first Christmas. And it's their loss. Clovis Chappell used to tell the story about one of the shepherds who heard the proclamation of the angels about the birth of Jesus but did not go to Bethlehem to see for himself. Decades later, as he held his grandson on his knee, this shepherd told the child the stirring story about Jesus and the angels. I didn't take the trouble to go and see.