If I were to explain the Christmas story today, I would start with Mary and Joseph. I would tell the children that they loved each other very much, that he gave her flowers that he made for her out of wood, a very beautiful craft where furniture and houses and beautiful and/or useful things are built using tools and wood as raw material. That every time he cut down a tree he planted many seeds, to make sure that there would always be trees to provide shade and wood, and above