Northwest Nativity is a modern retelling of the Advent story, meant to help us to view the birth of Jesus through contemporary eyes. Our vision has been dimmed a bit by the sepia toned poetry build up of the last two thousand years. But when the first century heard of the miraculous nativity, it would have sounded very much to them like the story that you just read, about Maria, Joe, and Jesus. In other words, it was filled with people and places that were very familiar, and yet at the same time amazingly wonderful The juxtaposition of the miraculous and the mundane were never more evident than the night that Jesus arrived. (Includes family devotional study guide.)