"Every Christmas we are reminded of the innkeeper who turned Mary and Joseph and their baby away. We do not know his name, but we do know he tried sincerely to make amends by at least offering space with the animals.
Luke’s Gospel records ‘there was no room for them in the inn’ (Luke 2:7 New International Version). The main accommodation was packed out, due to the national census under which all citizens were required to return to their places of origin in order to be registered.
‘Have you any room for Jesus?’ asks the old gospel hymn. Poets and hymn-writers down through the years have found in this sacred birth narrative much to inspire them. They picture the holy family outside the inn, seeking admission, and find in that image a powerful metaphor applicable to us all still today. Another writer urges us to offer Christ ‘the best of rooms’, with the final words of the song affirming softly that ‘the best of rooms’ is ‘the heart’."
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