Only two more shopping days ‘til Christmas! Remember to visit your local small businesses as you make your last-minute selections. I wonder what Joseph and Mary might have been thinking two days before the birth of our Savior. Whether you place his date of birth in December (Western Church), January (Eastern Church) or sometime in the merry, merry month of May, there was a day in history when Mary was miserable, Joseph was nervous and a group of eastern star gazers was mystified.

It might be difficult to cut through all the hype and arrive at a clear vision of the Christ child, but we are not...