Missing…

…theft of baby Jesus?

Just spotted this label on a beautiful wooden nativity set in a local charity shop.

 

Thankfully the staff were gracious enough to spot the unintentional irony. All the same, makes you think, though – doesn’t it?

One of my favourite expressions for an object which is useless is “as much good as a chocolate fireguard”. Not sure “as much use as the nativity without Jesus” will ever catch on. Even so…

3 thoughts on “Missing…

    • Baby Jesus has been missing from the nativity set we use at home since our dog ate the figure. (See my blog post of yesterday.) As it’s so easy to want to keep Jesus as a baby safely in the manger, I place a small wooden cross on the crib to represent him and what he was born for.

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