Monday, December 16, 2013

What about Those Shepherds

Most of us accept the biblical accounting of the birth of Christ.  Let us examine one of the elements of that story – the shepherds.

They were perhaps a motley assortment of fellows.  They lived outside most of their lives, and they chased sheep around.  Sometimes they had to be the defender of the sheep – which means they fought off wolves and a few lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

They got cranky occasionally, and they were perhaps great story-tellers.  What else is there to do around all of those fires on all of those nights?

All of a sudden their night’s sleep is interrupted by bright lights, heavenly beings, and commanding pronouncements.  And to top it all off, they are told, with force, to leave their comfortable nights habitat and go find a – get this – find a baby in a feeding trough.

Can you believe that?

Well, being shepherds from the right side of the tracks, they went and they found all things as it had been told them.

Let’s look in on their visit.

“On one side sits a group of shepherds.  They sit silently, in awe, and on the floor.  Are they perplexed?  Are they amazed?  You bet. 

They were the ones who heard the first cries, the first whisperings of God.

And there they sit, witnesses to the most amazing beginnings the world had ever seen.



P Michael Biggs
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