# Be Ready - Sunday, 2025.12.21 Can you imagine! Here you are a shepherd out in the field watching sheep. All day! All night! You are bored stiff! The battery on your Game Boy died long ago and you can't afford an iphone; besides, there is no place to charge it anyway. It's dark, really dark, except for the stars, lots of stars. After counting them imagining characters in the sky for the 1000th time, you are still bored. You fantasize about wrestling a lion or bear so you could be like David. Then all of a sudden this "thing" shows up that looks like some sort of alien from one of the movies you binge-watched last month on your day off. Its appearance is terrifying and you are about to make a huge mess in your robe, then the alien says, "Hey, chill! It's cool!" Then, he starts talking about about a child being born and you could find it in a manger back in town. You are thinking what kind of parent would put their new born in a feeding trough in a barn? You are also thinking that you really need to lay off the garlic. It must be causing some sort of hallucinations. So, you wake up your shepherd buddy and about that time, not just one, but a whole army of aliens are out there in the field there talking about glory, peace and favor!! Maybe it's not the garlic, cause all of your shepherd buds saw the same thing. So, how would you react and what would you do if you were one of those shepherds that night??? ## Passage And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night. Just then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid! For behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people: Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord! And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” And suddenly there appeared with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests!” {Luke 2.8-14 (BSB)}