WHO AM I?
I am an Innkeeper and three, smelly
shepherds showed up, banged on my door saying they were looking for a woman who
was having a baby! They had their hats in their hands and bowed real low-like,
except the tall guy who looked VERY INTENSE.
Shepherds! On my life... I sent them
away with a kick and a curse! Good God what a smell! If my guests, who are
well-paying guests, were to see that lot groveling and bowing and stinking and
gesturing to the sky and saying all sorts of gibberish, they’d wonder what kind
of place I run!
I run a respectable place. I protect my
guests if need-be. So, I didn’t tell them Shepherds about the old man and the
girl who are outback in the stable. None of those Shepherd’s business, I say.
WHY AM I HERE?
They said some kind of nonsense about
an Angel coming in their dreams. An angel. Really?! To Shepherds? Why would an
Angel go to Shepherds? Especially them three? They reeked of sweat and cheap
wine. Said they were seeking a miraculous child that was going to be born – a
child of The Most High!
Ha!
A child of the Most High? Certainly
that old man and girl wouldn’t be carrying no child of the Most High and have
no money?!
Most High folks stay INSIDE.
Not likely. A girl way-out-to here with
a baby, and that tottering old geezer, no money, leading a donkey, so I did the
right thing and I put ‘em out back in the stable.
WHAT DO I WANT?
Money! I only take in people with money
in purse! I was being uncommonly KIND to let them use my stable. Why did I do
that? It’s so unlike me! But, that girl, she was... well, she was
RADIANT. She was so young. So tender. So brimming with tenderness. Well, like I
say, it caused me to act so against my nature. Oh, well, one act of kindness
once a year can be forgiven, eh?
If those Shepherds had looked like they
had any money, I’da sold the information about the baby. Angels!? Right. Ain’t
seen no Angels around here, this is Bethlehem!
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