The innkeeper who gave Mary and Joseph a Christmas Eve cave should be a holiday model for Christians as they celebrate the birth of the Messiah. That's because that Middle Eastern Howard Johnson had the simple consideration to think beyond the "no" that could have easily been his complete conversation with the visiting strangers who came to his door. In contrast, many Christians who honor the child born that night say no all the time to strangers during the very time of the year when they should be opening their doors to the lonely, forgotten, and alienated.