Celebrating the Real Christmas Story 12/26

I am still celebrating the Real Christmas Story.  Today, I am celebrating the Shepherds, because technically, they show up after Jesus was born.  If I understand this right, the Shepherds were the lower class.  The bottom of the SES - socio economic scale.  No status.  A hard, but lowly job that took long hours, but it didn't pay well at all:  Caring for someone else's sheep. 

I understand that God demonstrates his love for the poor, by going to the shepherds FIRST with this grand, good news of a royal birth.  And grandly HE does this, with a single Angel and the classic Angelic Line:  Do not be afraid.  and then, POW, a whole angel army to sing the good news!  To shepherds at night on a hillside. 

^{Luke 2:8} That night, some shepherds were in the fields nearby watching their sheep. ⁹ Then an angel of the Lord stood before them. The glory of the Lord was shining around them, and they became very frightened. ¹⁰ The angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I am bringing you good news that will be a great joy to all the people. ¹¹ Today your Savior was born in the town of David. He is Christ, the Lord. ¹² This is how you will know him: You will find a baby wrapped in pieces of cloth and lying in a feeding box.”
¹³ Then a very large group of angels from heaven joined the first angel, praising God and saying:

¹⁴ “Give glory to God in heaven,
    and on earth let there be peace among the people who please God.