Angels on Earth magazine

Room at the Inn?

IT SEEMED LIKE a great idea for our church to put the youth group in charge of the annual Christmas pageant—until they asked my son, Charlie, to take part in it.

“Please let him be in the Christmas play,” begged Julie, the teenaged head of the youth group, when she cornered my family after church.

“Charlie just turned four,” I said. “That’s too young to be in a play.”

“But we really want him to be the innkeeper,” she said. “He would have only one

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