It’s Christmas. Well, it is the day we celebrate the birth of Christ. I don’t want to go too far into the weeds, but despite songs and poetic verses that talk about the “bleak mid-winter” and the mental image of Mary and Joseph trudging with a donkey in the snow, it probably didn’t happen that way.
Harris Blackwood: Cherishing the Christmas meaning
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