While in Germany last year, I was pleasantly surprised to see a nativity scene right in the main train station. I saw an even larger one in the main city square. My heart soared with joy to see that, as I saw it then, 'even while Americans are afraid of the nativity, the Germans aren't! Good for them!'
It was only later when I was journaling for the day that I realized that they were comfortable with the Nativity because, for then, it was merely a decoration--a traditional thing you set out for Christmas. Maybe a few old people would pause to reflect, but the rest would either rush by with indifference or compare the style and design to the one they grew up with somewhere else. No one would have their lives changed by realizing that the Son of God was born as a man to save men.
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