As we draw closer to Christmas Day and celebrating the birth of the Christ Child may these words by Barbara Brown Taylor guide your thoughts.  She says, “God’s birth always requires human partners:  Mary, a Joseph, you, me-folks willing to believe the impossible, willing to claim the scandal, to adopt it and give it our names, accepting the whole sticky mess and rocking it in our arms.  Our lives, our losses, our loves, our Lord.  And not just each of us alone but the whole church of God, surveying a world that seems to have run amuck, and proclaiming over and over again to anyone willing to hear, that God is still with us, that God will still be born in the mess and through it, within and among those who will still believe what angels tell them in their dreams.”  May your partnership with God lead you to the manager and then into the world to tell the good news!