For everyone who does assemblies, carol services, sermons and written articles the challenge of Christmas returns each year demanding a new angle on an old and rather short story of angels, shepherds and wise men.
Just when you think there is no possible variation or speculation that you haven't considered along comes a Christmas card that introduces a new 'train' of thought. What if . . .
Biblically the story of the incarnation is animal-free. A manger but no animals mentioned, shepherds that have left their sheep and wise men who must have travelled on something but we don't know what.
Tradition bequeaths us three wise men and therefore three camels. It's speculative but tidy. This card introduces the thought that there was only one camel. It's certainly a new angle.
Did they have to sell the other camels to pay for the expensive gifts?
Is this where car lifts to church really began as they shared the one camel?
Most provocatively of all (as the wise man on the camel appears to have no gift) was Gold, Frankincense or Myrrh actually the name of the camel??
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