seeing and hearing

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them. (Luke 2:20)

the shepherds

saw and heard

is that because

they were not

so preoccupied

with their own

plans and agendas

but were

open and receptive

to whatever

or whoever

may come along

what if the angels

had come

to the bankers

or the lawyers

or the doctors

or the businessmen

or even the ministers

would they even

have noticed

apparently not

or the angels

would've come to them

on that first christmas day

as the world

was too busy spinning

in their own lives and worlds

to pay attention

not much has changed

in two thousand years