Day: December 9, 2025

In Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus, we’re told that the shepherds “were in the same region” as Bethlehem. They were, Luke writes, “out in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night.”  This phrase reads like poetry, because it is lyrically familiar. But you could also read it as just plain reporting. The shepherds were shepherding, exactly where shepherds usually shepherd, and shepherding, well, sheep. So far, Luke is reporting an ordinary night. Things are as they always are. This is so ordinary, so “as things always… Continue reading unto you