We are the "commoners", we are the shepherds

Excerpt taken from "Just Thoughts of A Plain Country Woman"  December 25, 1947

". . . During the war when we sent packages overseas months ahead of time, we thought that victory and war's end would stop all our worries, that peace would be the greatest thing in the world. 
Of course, our first thought was to stop the killing and crippling of our sons and daughters but we still do not have peace.

Even as we have prepared for Christmas, Peace on Earth Good Will to Men, the ministers of the world's goverments have sat and wrestled long and hard to solve the problems of peace.  They may be likened to the wise men of the Nativity who in their learning and wisdom have tried to worship
Him, whereas we common people are like the shepherds who have seen the, vision and have worshipped Him in our simpler ways since we all want peace. . . . 
 

What can we - the common people, the Shepherds, do to bring peace?

We can do as those others did;  they "made known the glad tidings of a Baby born"  in answer to their many, many years of prayer for one "Who should save them from their persecutions;"  they were lifted in the knowledge that they, common shepherds, had been chosen to see the glory and tell the world of the Baby born in a manger to ordinary people of their world.

 

The dignity and personality of every man, not just wise, rich, powerful men, were glorified, and out of that sense of man's personal value has come down to us here in America  -- our most precious heritage.