50 years ago — December 19, 1966
The three wise men on their journey home from Bethlehem discuss what they have witnessed. Doubts and despair fill their minds. “That family is very poor. … Long before the frankincense has lost its fragrance and the myrrh its perfume, the gold will all be gone. … One cannot be a king without wealth.” And without wealth, how can one be wise? It takes money to gain an education. It’s true he is of the royal line, but but a royal line of what? “Of a slave people, without hope of winning again the land of their fathers.” The young camel driver spoke up with wisdom to these three. “What if it is God who has so willed it? His ways are not as our ways. What if God has so chosen, that out of weakness and poverty, in the face of the power and glory of the nations, out of the night of man’s despair, a new kingdom shall rise, not made with hands? … What if now God speaks to us in a child – what if this be his child?”
From “Three unwise men” by Kenneth J. Foreman
