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What was THAT all
about?, said Herod, as the palace doors slammed behind the visitors, and immediately
called his national security council and his entire entourage of advisers. And
they put their heads together in order to ensure the most efficient elimination
of this new threat to the kingdom. That night their strategy for elimination of the impostor to the throne morphed into a tactical plan for a mass murder.
What was THAT all
about?, said the religious know-it-alls, not little offended that some presumptuous
foreigners dared intrude on their privileged turf. If there was anything to this preposterous story about the birth of the
Messiah, wouldn’t God reveal it to US first? And they quoted the chapter
and the verse, and nodded their heads and gave a hearty approval to each other
and to the deranged king that this must be nipped in the bud before it gets out
of hand.
What was THAT all
about?, said the weary travelers as the palace doors slammed behind them.
They shivered in the cold and in the chilly foreboding of something they couldn’t
quite understand and they lifted their weary eyes to the wide open sky.
No clue… but… LOOK!
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Shut out and enveloped by the molasses-thick darkness, their
eyes grew big… and then BIGGER.
Their star was back!
The star that launched them on their ridiculous journey…
The star that lured their childhood dreams out of their sleepy hearts and into the open… that made them look like fools, leaving everything behind as they reached
towards something they didn’t know what…
The star was back.
They rubbed their eyes, and looked at teach other, and at the star, forgetting all about the strange conversation inside the king's mansion, and the palace door slammed-shut behind their backs... and even the bumpy journey of a million camel-steps... because, suddenly, none of it really mattered in the light of the star's return.
This post is the fifth installment in the Magi-cal Journey series.
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