Did the account of the Nativity really happen?

Merry Christmas to all of you out in blog-o-sphere!!!

This morning was a great time for all of us at the Treichler home, with special party in the honor of our Savior's birth!!

As I was reading the Question of Faith section in the Minneapolis Star Tribune this afternoon, I was very blessed by Rev. Peter Boehlke, Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, St. Paul answer to the question, "Did the account of the Nativity really happen?" Listen to his great answer!

Oh, yes, absolutely. What else is there to believe? Low-carb diets? My government's reasons for going to war? Barry Bond's pursuit of Hank Aaron's home run record? The poet W.H. Auden writes of Christmas: "Follow him through the land of unlikeness; you will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures." Here's my tradition's unique adventure: At the fulcrum of history, in a land at the crossroads of the armies, during a time when the Empire was enrolling everyone for homeland security, the Love that fires the universe sneaks into the world in the womb of a young Jewish girl, and the divine and human become one. This good news is announced to the lowest and poorest. Whatever you believe, don't sit around for years on end reading the newspaper, scratching your head trying to befriend the facts. Get yourself to the grandest cathedral or a pathetic little church; a homeless shelter or prison will do. Sing the songs of the season, watch children in bathrobes as wise men, feed the hungry, proclaim release to the captives, light a candle and hold it up in the darkness, confessing a Word that is as beautiful as it is true.

Enjoy Jesus today, and sing along with the angels, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests!"

Steve