Monday, December 23, 2019

Send in the Bathrobed Magi

It is, as many know, Christmas pageant time. Tiny tots from Sunday school, garbed as angels, will  open the program with "Jingle Bells" and at least one will have a meltdown.

Then the older group will present the Nativity play, with the prettiest girl as Mary, the class thug as the gentle Joseph, three pre-teen boys in bathrobes as the Wise men, and a confused dog as a camel.

At the conclusion, the entire cast and watchers will sing "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." Then the performers will be given bags of oranges, hard candies and possibly toxic nuts, and sent off into the snowy night.

We've all been there. Some of us on stage, in our bathrobes.

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