Putting two together, or I won’t get them done. All right. I heard one of these questions on the radio. I liked it, so here it is:
Is there something you want for Christmas — under $250 — that you won’t tell anyone you want? If so, why won’t you tell?
For instance, on the show, a pastor called up, said he wants a bottle of wine, but he works with recovering alcoholics, so he won’t say that’s what he wants! I can’t believe that! Tell SOMEONE, man! Maybe NOT the alcoholics, but SOMEONE!
Whew. All right, Tracey, calm down.
Next question. LAST question:
If you could be someone in the story of Jesus’ birth, who would you want to be and why?
Let’s see… nothing under $250 that I know of. I get yelled at for not asking for anything. I tell my wife not to bother with me, I’m happy and we don’t need to spend the cash. Now I can think of a couple of things OVER $250 I’d like!
Who would I want to be? I’d have to say Joseph because the Maji and the shepherds left. Joseph was still around. Oh sure, Mary was too, but I don’t have the girlish figure… 😉
I’d be Herod the Not-So-Great, so I could rescind my own order to kill all the Jewish babies.
Herod the Not-So-Great! hahahaha
I’d ask for some new wood blocks and to get all the carving tools sharpened. Why I won’t? I love carving, but it is so completely absorbing that I made a vow to not start it again until all the kids had left home. I’ve substituted another love – knitting – until then.
I’d like to be a shepherd, because they were humble and the first to hear the good news. (Us Catholics shy away from imagining ourselves as either St. Joseph or the B.V.M.!)
There are a number of things I’d want for $250 or less. I guess I can tell you guys, because there’s no way any of you could actually get them for me. But I won’t.
I would most like to be Joseph also, just because….man. A front-row seat to the life of Jesus. No offense meant, Sal.
-M@
Aw, c’mon, M@!! We promise we won’t get them for you. 😉
And Sal — You do wood blocking? I think that’s so cool.
I can’t think of anything that I want.
The person that I would like to be in the Christmas story is one who isn’t mentioned, a servant girl at the inn, who probably helped Mary and Joseph settle in. She may have even run for the midwife.