Christmas night

                                John 3:34

 He 

 whom 

 God

 sent 

 speaks 

 the 

 words 

 of God 

 for he gives the Spirit without measure.  

I wonder what Christmas night was like for Mary and Jospeh. The Eve was angel-sung, but by the next night, tonight, the skies were silent again and the shepherds, those extraordinary, rough clad but gentle men who had appeared and gathered round them, who had been such welcome but unexpected company, had left and gone back to the hills and their sheep (Were they forever changed?) and Mary and Joseph were alone.