It’s a Boy

One night there went out over the stillness of an evening breeze, out over the white-chalked hills of Bethlehem a cry, a gentle cry.

The sea did not hear the cry for the sea was filled with its own voice. The earth did not hear the cry for the earth slept.

The great men of the earth did not hear the cry, for they could not understand how a child could be greater than a man. The kings of the earth did not hear the cry, for they could not fathom how a king could be born in a stable.

There were only two classes of men who heard the cry that night: shepherds and wise men; shepherds, men who know they know nothing, and wise men, men who know they do not know everything.

And the shepherds found their Shepherd, and the wise men discovered Wisdom, and the Shepherd and the Wisdom was a little baby in a manger.

Watch that little baby in that manger, and listen to God’s message on that Christmas night.

by Bishop Fulton Sheen