Seasonal: FIREMEN IN THE NATIVITY SCENE
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In a small southern town there was a nativity scene that showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it. One small feature puzzled me; The three wise men were wearing firemen's helmets. I figured the local volunteers had played a little joke. At a quickie mart on the edge of town, I asked the lady behind the counter about the helmets. She replied quite firmly yet graciously they were *not* a joke, and if "You darn Yankees ever read the Bible, you'd know why!" I assured her that I did, but simply couldn't recall anything about firemen in the Bible. She smiled sweetly and pulled her Bible from behind the counter and ruffled thru some pages. She found a specific page and placed the Bible in front of me, pointing to Matthew Chapter 2, where I read: "...and three wise man came from AFAR." |