It was the day after Christmas. Dad was trying to take a nap, but his young son kept finding ways to interrupt his siesta. Finally the father lost his patience and said sternly, “Go to my room, and go now!”
Hearing this, the boy’s mother asked, “Why did you tell him to go to your room and not his?”
The father replied: “Are you kidding? Did you see all those Christmas presents the kid received? In his room he has a TV, an iPod, an iPad, an Xbox and 3 new electronic games. If we want to punish him, we have to send him to our room.” (1)
How very different is our world from the world into which the Christ child was born. I wonder if Jesus ever even had a room of his own.
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