i sure am glad that they did! seeing the cows, people dressed in period costume and hearing people tell the story of jesus birth while standing before a baby in a feeding trough … well, it takes the story to whole new personal level for me.
i hope that you will all use today as a time to seek out a living nativity to visit. take the time to ride or walk through with family and friends. share what parts of the story were the most meaningful when re-told in the reality of the living animals and manger. let this story come into your heart in a way that it may 