Luke 2:1-6 (ESV) In those days a decree went out from Augustus Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.  This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Suria.  And all went to be registered, each to his own town.  And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth,…

In the movie City Slickers, Billy Crystal plays a confused, dissatisfied thirty-something character with a vague sense that life is passing him by.  Jack Palance – ancient, leathery, wise-to-the-world (“a saddlebag with eyes”) – asks Crystal if he wants to know the secret of life.  “It’s this”, Palance says, holding up his index finger.  “The…