The Hartley Sentinel-The Everly/Royal News - Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties

Let's be honest – we don't see ourselves as a spiritual being. However, we are a spiritual being having a very real human experience. We see ourselves as human first and spiritual secondary. This Christmas, maybe we can see the celebration of Christ's birth for what it really is – a very real spiritual experience, that involved very real human people.

It's easy for us to read the account of Jesus' birth in Scripture and forget that these were real human, ordinary flesh-and blood people. Mary was to be found with "God's favor upon her." God did and still does use ordinary people for an...