Teresa loves reading her little board book Bible. It's one of those "only Mom can read this right" books as she knows what songs we sing with each story (Noah's Ark, Zacchaeus, Jesus' birth), or which ones we don't have songs for and just read the words (Adam & Eve, Daniel in the Lions Den).
Last night, after she, Nathan, and I sang "Away in a Manger," she asked me again why there was no crib for baby Jesus. She asks me this almost every time we read it. She can't wrap her mind around that there was no room in the "hotel" and he had to be born in the stable. After all, has a hotel ever turned her away? They wouldn't dare!
Last night she answered her own question.
She finished with, "Because there was no room at vacation?"
Yep. That's right.
I wonder if Mary and Joseph ever dreamed that 2000+ years later a little girl in South Dakota would be describing their long journey to Bethlehem as a "vacation."
Well, at least it would have been if they had been able to get a room at the inn with a bouncy bed, continental breakfast and an indoor pool. :o)
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