“This
is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged
to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be
pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was faithful to
the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind
to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the LORD
appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to
take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy
Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus,
because He will save his people from their sins.’" (Matthew 1:18-21)
It is
impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if Christ’s
birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did … For millions of
people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new
way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for
twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in
untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the Child who was born, so
caught up in the message He taught and the life He lived, that they have found
themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with Him.
-- Frederick Buechner
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