Can you Imagine?

After telling the Christmas story a million times, I realized something. Imagine holding your sweet baby as it is wrapped in swaddling clothes. What are swaddling clothes? Well, they are used to wrap the limbs of the dead! (They also believed that the swaddling clothes would help their babies bodies grow straight). Crazy! Holding your baby and marveling at his beauty but to have that visual of his death right away! And what about the gifts you get when you have a baby? Diapers, wipes, cute outfits, essentials, etc. Mary got Myrrh, an incense you burn at a burial, to represent His death. So from the get go, the miracle of Jesus was reminding the world that He came to die for OUR sins. Awesome!