Joseph guided the donkey from inn to inn looking for a place for Mary to rest. However, there were no rooms left at the inns. Desperately, Joseph knocked on the door of an inn at the end of a narrow street. The innkeeper opened the door only to give them the same answer, "We have no rooms left!" The innkeeper's wife, glancing over her husband's shoulder, noticed the young Mary, pregnant with child, and compassion filled her heart. "Dearest", she said, "let them stay in back in the manger. It's quiet and warm there." "As you will," he waved his arm and went back to his other guests.

Joseph gently led Mary into the cozy little manger. Late during the night, when the city was asleep, a baby's cry was heard from the manger in back of the inn. Mary gave birth to her son, Jesus, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and placed him in a little brown basket. Joseph tied a little wooden donkey toy he had carved to the handle of the basket, his first gift to his son. Together, they gazed in loving wonder at the beautiful child, asleep in his cradle. The donkey, sensing something special was taking place, came closer and gazed down at the sleeping baby. A little rabbit nearby stopped and saw the warm glow in the manger and hopped over to see what was inside. Above the manger, in the deep night sky, a bright star hovered, casting its rays like a protective mantel over the manger. Nearby in the fields, shepherds were sung awake by a chorus of angels...and the heavens rejoiced over The First Christmas.

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Wooden Creche Pipka Santas First Christmas Nativity Item # 30022
Long, long ago, in a far away land, Mary and her husband, Joseph, had to travel from their little village Bethlehem to be counted in a census. Mary, pregnant, rode a donkey led by Jo
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