Bethlehem is struggling this week of Christmas on the eve of the end of the first decade of this century we all rang in with such hope. Bethlehem is historically troubled. This Christmas is no different as the latest news reports say that Israel has shut the city down in a siege keeping all Palestinians in and all Christians wishing to visit there for the holy holiday out.
I read of the historic fights over the city with a sense of irony. Why in all these centuries has anyone not figured out that there might be a divine plan in the place being holy for all three practices of God's peoples. And the greatest irony of all being that the so troubled city was the birthplace of the Prince of Peace.
Something to think about...
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