Seeker

Last year on this day, the 4th of Christmas and 'Holy Innocents Day' I wrote about 'The Forgotten Christmas Story' . This story is about King Herod's murder of baby boys in a vain attempt to eliminate the infant Jesus. It's a universal story. Someone in power feels threatened and lashes out, never mind who gets hurt, even babies and toddlers. It is a story that is still happening. You can read the gospel story in Matthew 2: 13-18 here .  Malcolm Guite's post today on The Holy Innocents links Herod's massacre of the Bethlehem babies with children killed in Syria and at Sandy Hook school. He writes that Jesus knows and loves every child and says to every Herod, "whatsoever ye do unto the least of these, ye do it unto me." Malcolm's post includes his sonnet 'Refugee' based on Matthew 2: 13-18 which is well worth reading. Herod's Solution is Digitalnun's challenge to see the connection between Jesus' birth and the ...