‘I did not realize that when you said that you would have liked to have been there for Jesus’ birth, you were serious and had a means of conveyance,’ Chet said.

‘Well it is all a bit mysterious to me as well as when St. Nicholas came up to me at St. Charles and asked me if I would like to take a special trip,’ Billy B answered.

‘We walked into our favorite restaurant and exited through the back door and thus we are here in Bethlehem,’ Neva J said with wonder in her eyes. ’There are the wise men and the shepherds and it feels like earth-shaking is happening,’ Jane exclaimed!

‘Even the animals of the barn are mesmerized and it appears that they are crying for joy,’ said Chet. 

‘This is the promised one that we have been waiting for,’ a shepherd said. ’He is the peacemaker and will turn us from our warring ways,’ he continued. 

‘Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill toward men,’ the angels sang.

‘We have forgotten too much…Christmas began here and the message is profound in its simplicity’ Neva J said with tears in her eyes. ’We have made being a Christian something to fight about and as a cudgel against those who do not share our feelings,’ she continued.

‘Jesus came into our world in lowly circumstances…look at him and his mother and Joseph…they have nothing and yet they have everything,’ Chet said in a somber voice.

‘Now you must go back and tell others what you have seen,’ said the angel who morphed into St. Nicholas…

‘Are you getting the Reuben Sandwich Billy B,’ Jane asked….