What the Camels Know

      Welcome to this year’s Christmas edition of my Sunday inspirational blogs. For six weeks, starting the first Sunday in December, I have been posting an updated version of the blogs I posted in 2011 and again in 2016. I thought they were kind of cute, so decided they were worth revisiting. I’ve been updating the pictures from my most recent trips to Kenya, but unfortunately, for today’s post, these are the same weary camel pictures I’ve posted before. That first trip to Africa in 2006 is the only time I was up close to camels.

 When the wise men saw the star, they were filled with joy. They came to the house where the child was and saw him with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their gifts and gave him treasures of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 

Matthew 2:10-11 (New Century Version)

 Visitor: Hi, there. You guys look tired.

 Camel 1: Not so much.

 Camel 2: Really? We just trekked half-way across the world, loaded down with all sorts of stuff.

 Camel 1: Are you truly whining? We are camels, we were born to carry heavy loads for days on end. We do not whine.

 Visitor: I didn’t mean to start anything. Why did you come all this way?

 Camel 1: Our masters were on a quest to find the new-born king. We have been following the king’s star for a very long time. Our masters are well-educated men who knew the meaning of the star and it brought us here.

 Visitor: Something brought me here too, but it wasn’t a star.

 Camel 2: What was it then?

 Visitor: Something drawing me to the baby. You say he is a king?

 Camel 1: The king of the Jews.

 Visitor: Hmm? But I’m not a Jew, so why do you think I care so much about this child?

 Camel 1: Maybe he really came to be the king of all.

 Visitor: Wow, but he’s so little, so young. And his parents are so poor. How can he be a king?

 Camel 2: We are just camels. How should we know? We don’t need a king. We have our masters who care for us and feed us. And then work us half to death.

 Camel 1: Stop your whining. All I know is that our masters are good men. They have brought expensive gifts to this boy-king. You need to just keep following him. You will get your answers.

 Visitor: Thank you so much. I have been questioning all the animals that I have met along the way, but you have been the most helpful of all of them.

 Camel 1: Good luck on your own quest. Have faith.