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Charley my cat has an interesting habit at this time of the year.  She finds the woollen nativity figures and selects one.  She grabs it in her mouth and carries it away - often leaving it half way up the stairs.

So it is not unusual on a morning around Christmas time to meet a shepherd or a wise man on the stairs.  This is one of the markers of this festive time.  Strangely she avoids doing this with either Mary or the infant Jesus, or even the lamb - possibly because they are smaller.  I wonder what she thinks she is doing.

What she is doing is making Christmas memorable.

Recently she had to have several teeth removed - but she is still carrying the figures around.

Have you met a shepherd or a king on the stairs this Advent? No?  Then I commend to you a re-reading of the real story in Luke and Matthew.

Better still - meet the Living Christ at this Christmas time.

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