The picture you see here is a traditional manger, used today as in ancient times. It is not a wooden fixture like the one you might find in the crèche in your home, but rather cut from stone. Mangers are for holding water, not food like hay.
Jesus, the living water, came to be with us. But before He poured Himself out as a sacrifice, He filled a manger.
And Bethlehem, or Beth Lechem - literally the house of bread, became the birthplace of the Bread of Life.
