I have to confess that at first I thought she was covering up her shady past, but later I started to realize that what she said might be true. After all, we have a mighty, powerful God a God Who can do anything He wants to do. After the baby was born, and we had wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, there was a knock on the barn door. A bunch of shepherds came in with a story as strange as that of the mother. We sure can use a Savior.
Times are tough.
Soldiers are always roaming through our town, and our children especially our girls are never safe. We feel like captives most of the time. And although most of us can scratch out a living, some of the really poor may not make it through the winter. There has also been a lot of fighting in the village lately. Our neighbor is fooling around with another man's wife.