You Can Be A Guiding Star

To love everyone around you as you love yourself, or at least make the conscious choice to try every day. To not judge other people’s paths and never try to force your perspective on life onto them. To stop prioritizing material status and possessions over anything else. To strive to build bridges of understanding, compassion, and togetherness in a world often divided by differences. To focus on the universal values of love, empathy, and acceptance.

Every year during the holiday season, we used to visit my grandma's home in Chihuahua, Mexico. Under the Christmas tree, she would create the most amazing nativity scene. It was her specialty—4 feet wide and 3 feet tall, crafted with real moss, miniature fake trees, sheep, rugged mountainous terrain, ponds, and snow that surrounded a little manger with baby Jesus. And, of course, atop it all, the Star of Bethlehem.

It was a sight to behold; everyone loved it. It was beautiful and very elaborate.

As the portion of the verse in the Bible, Matthew 2:9 says:

“And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was.”

What? A star moving and then resting on a specific place?

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