Imagining the infant Christ
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I couldn’t sleep. It was a cold and cozy December night. Maybe I ate too many cookies. Or had a list that wouldn’t stop unrolling itself in my head. All I know is I was awake. I left my husband snoring deeply in our bed, curled up on the living room couch with the remote and searched for something to watch on television.
On one of those obscure channels, I found a Christmas special from the 1980s with a very old Jimmy Stewart, called Mr. Krueger’s Christmas. Stewart played the title character, a lonely widowed apartment building custodian. As he decorates his basement apartment for Christmas, he sets out his Nativity set and imagines standing before the Christ Child.