He said I should learn to control people better, in fact. I wrote this story for I am always sad that so few people do remember what happened in the Temple that day . It was forty days after Jesus had been born - for that is when the sacrifice of purification had to be made. Simeon and Anna were just two old people that the busy world hardly noticed and yet they were the first people outside the Christmas story to recognize Jesus as the Son of God - the Messiah that had been promised for so long. Always there, always faithful.
Old people are so important.
Elizabeth Tolson 1999. Hear Elizabeth reading her own stories.