Articles by month: January 2010

It is time! Joseph thought.

With his tough carpenter’s hands, Joseph touched his wife's cheek, feeling the dampness from her tears. His own eyes clouded as he said "I know nothing of birthing a baby." Realizing they would never make Bethlehem before the child came, he took refuge in a shallow cave near a meadow where shepherds grazed their sheep. There, Mary, with Joseph's help, gave birth to her special child of God.

A Girl.

As Mary held the baby to her breast, she said, "We will call her, Lael. The name means Chosen of God." As she said this, there was a cry in the nearby cave. A young woman, alone, gave birth to a child.

Before she died, she named the boy.

Jesus.