The fields around Bethlehem are brown and dry at this time of the year. But it is the end of the dry season and the rains will come soon and green up the grass. It was in a field like this one that the angel appeared to the shepards to announce the birth of the Saviour. "And the angel hosts joined him in praising God and singing "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men on whom his favour rests."