# A Story from the Files

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- Published: 2025-12-26T19:32:15-05:00
- Author: stumcworship

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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.