Flashback Friday: Hey! Unto You a Child is Born!

Me, as Imogene Herdman at the Springville Playhouse, age 10

Imogene had the baby doll but she wasn't carrying it the way she was supposed to, cradled in her arms.  She had it slung up over her shoulder, and before she put it in the manger she thumped it twice on the back.

I heard Alice gasp and she poked me. "I don't think it's very nice to burp the baby Jesus," she whispered, "as if he had colic."  Then she poked me again.  "Do you suppose he could have had colic?"

I said, "I don't know why not," and I didn't.  He could have had colic, or been fussy, or hungry like any other baby.  After all, that was the whole point of Jesus--that he didn't come down on a cloud like something out of "Amazing Comics," but that we was born and lived...a real person.

--Barbara Robinson from The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (pg 98)