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Where’s Jesus? One baffled frown mirrored in the face of another. A skip of the heart. A tremor of terror. I thought he was with you. The caravans of pilgrims … Continue reading Day 25- The Significance Of “70”: The Boy Jesus In the Temple
In the sands six miles north of Cairo, Egypt Hebrew inscriptions can be found among the ruins of an ancient city. Jewish burial catacombs snake under the dunes. This is Tell … Continue reading Day 24- “Out of Egypt I Call My Son”: A Priestly Line in Egypt
Herod held his paranoid, murderous impulses together long enough to craft a subtle plan. He would deceive the wise men from the east into finding the child and then revealing … Continue reading Day 21- A Royal Welcome and Three Special Gifts
The sun beat down on them by day, and they slept under a canopy of stars by night. They had been travelling the International Highway for many weeks in a caravan … Continue reading Day 18- “We Three Kings”: Who Were The Wise Men From the East?
Crowds filled the streets as the young couple made their way toward the base of the temple complex. The woman had given birth forty days before and the time for her ritual purification … Continue reading Day 17- Baby’s First Trip to the Temple
They were the dregs of society pulling the night shift in a despised vocation. How unexpected, how illogical, how revolutionary it was that The Holy One of All would choose these men … Continue reading Day 16- A Divine Birth Announcement
Whenever the Christmas story was read to me as a child I had an image in my mind of Joseph and a very pregnant Mary making their way down a crowded … Continue reading Day 13- No Room In the Kataluma
She was pregnant and he knew the baby wasn’t his. She had promised to be faithful. He was busily preparing their home to receive her as his wife when he … Continue reading Day 6- Betrayal
Pregnant. She was 13 and pregnant. No one, no one, was going to believe her story; not until Joseph received his own angelic visitor at least. The angel came to … Continue reading Day 5- Pregnant
Head coverings. Veils. No twirling in the street. There could be no hint of impurity during the betrothal period. Her husband’s reputation was now indelibly linked to hers. If at … Continue reading Day 4- Head Coverings, Veils, and No Twirling In the Street
She didn’t even notice when it happened; not at first. Perhaps it was when she was drawing water from the well, or playing tag with her friends when somewhere deep … Continue reading Day 1- Changes