Simply Miraculous Christmas
I'm definitely a guy. Today is Christmas Eve so I loaded up the four kiddos (onto the bus) and ran to Queens Center Mall to give them a chance to get mommy & daddy some last minute Christmas presents. I was shocked. There cannot be another place on earth busier than this. Viewed from the clouds the Mall must look like an ant hill. Lines of people are pouring from the subway, from the parking garages, from the surrounding sidewalks and climbing in line up the hill. All the ants take little crumbs away from the colony instead of bringing crumbs into it. They crawl over each other as they leave the ant hill with their crumbs packed in variously sized plastic bags. We added to the organized chaos and took our crumbs back home. What a difference 2,000 years makes! The first Christmas Eve was much more simple. In Bethlehem there was no procession of lines of people to see the King. Yes, the city was packed with people. But the unwed couple received no at