Live Nativity
The live nativity was awesome! I actually heard it before I saw it. Our angel choir was singing Christmas carols and I could hear them a block away.
Gotta love those llamas. There was even a day-old donkey! And of course, the pit bulls. Lincoln park is a dog park. So some unleashed pit bulls were sniffing the sheep. Fortunately, there must be some sort of unspoken animal code. Either that or these pit bulls were fascinated by the strange looking dogs with wool.
What was so cool to me was seeing the faces of people coming and going. Nothing like a nativity to remind you of the reason for the season. It just puts you in the spirit of Christmas.
Of course, we had our token complainer :) We blessed hundreds and hundreds of people, but there is always one person who will find something wrong with something right. I guess someone was complaining about a church using federal property for this event, despite the fact that we had a permit from the National Park Service. He went off on the separation of church and state diatribe. Give me a break :) What a double standard. We do have this thing called the bill of rights, and freedom of speech and freedom of religion are right at the top of the list. I guess there will always be people who don't want freedom of religion. They want freedom from religion. All you can do is keep smiling and keep serving.
Can't wait till next year!
Gotta love those llamas. There was even a day-old donkey! And of course, the pit bulls. Lincoln park is a dog park. So some unleashed pit bulls were sniffing the sheep. Fortunately, there must be some sort of unspoken animal code. Either that or these pit bulls were fascinated by the strange looking dogs with wool.
What was so cool to me was seeing the faces of people coming and going. Nothing like a nativity to remind you of the reason for the season. It just puts you in the spirit of Christmas.
Of course, we had our token complainer :) We blessed hundreds and hundreds of people, but there is always one person who will find something wrong with something right. I guess someone was complaining about a church using federal property for this event, despite the fact that we had a permit from the National Park Service. He went off on the separation of church and state diatribe. Give me a break :) What a double standard. We do have this thing called the bill of rights, and freedom of speech and freedom of religion are right at the top of the list. I guess there will always be people who don't want freedom of religion. They want freedom from religion. All you can do is keep smiling and keep serving.
Can't wait till next year!
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