off to Mount Sinai for Christmas!

This scene of the young couple paying taxes is certainly something everyone can relate to.

They don't even live in Bethlehem, but because Joseph was born there, that's the locale to which they had to travel.

Did it even matter whether they lived there anymore?

Nope, not even.

Did it matter whether Joseph still had relatives there or not?

Nope, not even.

He was on the registry as having been born there, so that is where the Romans expected him to come for tax-paying.

In this scene, they have submitted their money and now are leaving the site to find a place to stay the night, as darkness is falling and Mary is too far along for travel.

Of course, we know the story, but it was good to get another perspective on it.

I haven't seen Langston Hughes' "The Black Nativity" for several years.

The first time was at Muse Arts Warehouse, back in 2011, when Albeni Arts presented it.

Now, that dancing group has grown into the Performing Arts Collective Savannah and the venue this season is First Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church.

So good to see Muriel Miller still dancing, thirteen years later!

So good to see her son, Josh Miller, still active on the stage and in the band as the Drummer Boy, literally and figuratively!

My guess is all of the "Senior Ensemble" have been part of the troupe all these years.

Kudos to Darrren Deloach, Devan Cokley, Jenique Williams (with her clear, pure, singing!), Laurent White, Lorenzo Daniels, and Veron Jackson.

The play itself was contained in Act One, but I stayed after intermission.

I wanted to see what would come next in this church that kept tambourines in the pews!

I'm glad I stayed.

For almost an hour, Darren Deloach and Sharon Aikens held a service that glorified what came next in the life of the boy born once he'd had three decades as a man.

Much singing accompanied the personal stories of salvation and the sermons about God's love.

I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, knowing that my mother had been raised in the house of a traveling Baptist minister, so I welcomed this look back into my history and this church's present.

Yes, I felt like I must have gone fast-forward through Saturday and into Sunday during this chilly afternoon, but it was a trip through time I was glad to take.

i thank You, God.