I couldn’t help but notice that something seemed . . . off about a nativity scene I passed today. I knew it had something to do with the simplicity of the scene, just a man and a woman sitting together underneath a simple wooden structure with something between them, but it took me a moment to place why it struck me as odd.
Partially it was the bright green grass the scene was set on, because it made the structure look all the world like a picnic shelter at a park to me, and that’s when it hit me:
From a distance it didn’t look like the baby was in a cradle, but on a picnic table, and the man and the woman were getting ready to eat!