The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.
We speculate as to the nature of the star that appeared to the wise men. We don't think the shepherds have anything to do with the star (they saw angels) but few Christmas artists seem to care about that detail. On this card the shepherds have seen the star:
Few cards I have ever seen have a star quite so luminous as this one. I'm surprised, given its brightness, that the wise men could look at it at all unless they had glasses with special lens.
Given that the star in this picture has transformed into something nearer a portent of Armageddon the mystery is why the shepherd is pointing at it. If his mate can't see THAT star he has a real problem.
Having noticed this it occurs to me that a great deal of Christian effort at Christmas is similar however - pointing at the blazingly obvious. Whole school nativities are presented portraying a season dedicated to animals (as far as I can tell a nativity with live animals cannot have any animals as the only ones mentioned in Scripture - sheep - were left in the fields), or dedicated to babies. Babies are not the solution but the problem I think, growing up in sin and needing the blazingly obvious real Christmas focus - a Saviour.
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