the second coming

So after reading Cory's post the urgency to get a new Baby Jesus for the manger somehow increased ever so slightly. We'd had a bit of fun with our missing posters that we pasted around the neighborhood...but the novelty wore off rather quickly, to tell you the truth. So today Emily and I picked out and purchased a new baby and we lovingly and trustingly placed it into the manger. Strapped down with wire, of course, but still...

We stood back and admired the holy family and decided all was well again. Not long after I looked out the window as a tiny little girl, bundled from head to toe, came running up to the manger. "Look mama!" she said. "It's Jesus! He's right here. I can touch Him!"

Moral of the story? You gotta have Jesus in the house and you gotta keep Him there. Close enough to touch.