social or geographic situation of the hearers,
The emperor in some place called Rome
had commanded people to travel days or weeks
despite illness, poverty, or other reasons,
so that stranger who had conquered them
of each of them. A crazy king held sway
over their homeland who thought nothing
of ordering all young boys in an area be slaughtered.
The message was for the shepherds and those they told,
for those who would hear the newborn in a cattle trough
when he began to spread the good news.
The message is for us no matter the news
if we choose to listen and accept the gift today.
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