A couple of years ago when my youngest child was about two years old, my husband bought one of those giant inflatable snowman and snow child and put it up in our front yard about two days before Christmas.  My son was delighted to have his very own snowman and periodically had to go outside and check on his new friend.  Early the day after Christmas, my son wanted to go check on his snowman and, since his dad was sleeping in, I took him outside…only to find the snowman was gone.  When I woke my husband to find out why he had taken the display down so early, he had no idea what I was talking about.  Apparently, the snowman was stolen on Christmas night, which left both of us asking, “What kind of person steals a Christmas decoration??”

The people of West Portal Lutheran Church in San Francisco are asking the same question today, after thieves have stolen sheep from the church’s life-sized nativity scene.  You can read the San Francisco Chronicle’s story for yourself here, but I thought this sentence says so much about the modern-day world:

"The church bolts and chains other Nativity scene figures, including the Baby Jesus, Joseph and Virgin Mary, to keep them from being stolen."

Stealing a snowman is one thing, but you’ve got to be a particularly unique form of low life to steal Baby Jesus.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.