In the Christmas story, the primary attendants are shepherds. If there is a more humble occupation in the world than that if shepherd, I don’t know what it is. Guardian to a bunch of smelly sheep! I doubt that any special training was required ”just some common sense and a degree of courage. Only God would have so glorified such a lowly occupation. Can’t you imagine one of those shepherds sitting in a.crowd of people who are world travelers. One man boasts, “I have seen the pyramids of Egypt.” Another says, “I saw Caesar ride through the streets of Rome in all his splendor.” I wonder if the humble shepherd would dare speak up and say, “I beheld the King of Kings, the mighty God Incarnate, Savior of the World in the manger of Bethlehem.” That is the way God works. He takes the lowliest of people and glorifies them. In so doing God teaches us that we should never regard with disdain another human being. Everyone IS beautiful in his or her own way. Even the. humblest of lives can be touched with the divine hand. You never know when the person you shut out might be one person you most would want to know.