The new moon had completed nine circuits from the time of Gabriel’s visit…the journey on the rugged road, between Nazareth and Bethlehem, found Mary heavy with child.
Category: Faith
The poignant memory of their forefathers’ humbling, achieved it’s dramatic effect…
The meteor, burst into view. Streaking across the velvety sky; It’s wake, a fiery tail of cascading embers.
Beads of sweat on Mary’s brow plastered wisps of hair to the sides of her face…the new life growing in her womb had no regard for their need of shelter…
Rome’s greed, and the lust for power of Caesar Augustus, had made him a useful instrument for God’s purposes.
She was to be pregnant; not by normal earthly means, but God himself would be the father.
And so began, the dangerous journey of the Magi.
The tender emotion loosened the knot in his chest, but ended abruptly when the reality struck…She was dead!
His eyes became vacant, black holes where a fire had begun to smolder.
By eternal design, the lowly shepherds became the first to pay homage to their Messiah, the infant king lying in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes.