We were just eight on Wednesday as we looked at another Christmas object - this time the manger in which Jesus was laid, which was more likely to have been of stone than wood, it seems. Certainly the strips of cloth wound round him and the laying down spekas of the grave rather than the cross. It was good to look at these matters once again adn to pray together.
Feeding troughs were hewn out of stone in Cyprus till very recently. We saw them all the time when we first lived here. I had assumed the stripes were swaddling. The burial reference is very interesting. A king is born and prepared for burial. Later a strange foreigner would bring myrrh. The story streams something huge is happening.
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