POVERTY and RICHES

Coming up to Christmas is a reminder of Poverty and Riches.

There is a hunger for material goods and comfort and such like.

This is good as we are meant to look out for one another and share as best we can the riches we possess.

Yet, there is more, much more to focus on at this Holy Season.

We are faced with the Truth of God, who is the Creator of the Universe, becoming a pauper.

In the Person of Christ, we have the story of Christmas, where the Christ-Child comes into this world of ours, poor and vulnerable; a new-born babe.

His holy mother, Mary and St. Joseph find themselves homeless. They is no room for them anywhere.

Someone takes pity on them and they are guided to a stable where they at least have shelter.The animals there provide some form of warmth from the cold.

Here, the Christ-Child is born and laid in a manger filled with straw.

We have the story of an Angel appearing to shepherds and directing them to where the Christ-Child lay. 

Was food provided for Mother and Child?  No doubt human kindness stepped in.
What a wonderful, splendid night!

Poverty is presented to us, cloaked in Riches beyond our imagination.. 

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