I recently had my entire family for Thanksgiving dinner and I am still "restoring" my house back to order. Though it will probably never be the same-I say this with a smile. As I was putting bowls away in the cupboard I realized that after four of us putting dishes away over the past week that I can't remember how I had them before our big event. Truth be told I really did have them in somewhat organized and truth be told that while I sense that it is different I can't remember what that order was. We so often think of "restoring things back to how they were" when the truth is that nothing can really ever go back to how it was. When Christ was born some thought that it was to restore things to a certain way and well...their attempts were probably similar to mine or even the innkeeper as he tried to clean up the barn from the chaos. Nothing is ever really the same when love arrives.
