about what Joseph must have been feeling and thinking?
He didn’t want to embarrass Mary and make matters worse for her.
I am thinking that matters were probably not so good.
She was pregnant and not married – so he was willing to just to “divorce her quietly” (Matthew 1:19)
“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 1:20-21
I wonder if Joseph ever thought, “What HAVE I gotten myself into?”
Yet, like us, once we yield our will to His will and His plans…things work out OK.
Were there tears? I am sure there were.
Was there sorrow? Without a doubt.
Was there pain and suffering? We know there was.
Joseph was Jesus’ earthly father…I believe he loved Jesus as much as I love my son.
As much as you love your children or nieces and nephews.
Can you just imagine what he felt? The Lord did a work on Joseph’s heart and I believe Joseph knew this child was going to be special.
Strange indeed…yet He IS the Messiah!
Lord, thank you for giving Joseph the courage to say yes even when He didn’t know exactly how it would turn out. Please give me that kind of courage. Courage to do what you ask, because I know it is YOU asking. Courage to follow YOUR lead and then trust in the guidance You supply. Courage to allow you to do a work on my heart.
How about you? Have you ever considered how Joseph must have felt?
As the weeks have drug on it has been easy for me to lose hope.
Will things ever get back to some type of normal? People were not created to live in isolation.
Will we be able to see someone smile or will we always look at them and only see their eyes?
Will people gather without having to sit 6’ apart?
I don’t know the answer and I’m not posting this to debate the news media’s portrayal of the pandemic.
I’m sharing this today because I spent some time with the Lord thanking him for the things I DO have and not focusing on the things I don’t have. The things I have lost since March.
I looked up scriptures about hope.
I made a list in my prayer journal of things I’m grateful for.
Life goes on. Life crisis continues even during this pandemic. People die naturall and tragically. And babies are born. And weddings happen and new lives begin.
This crisis in our world isn’t a surprise to God.
And my hope and security is in Him.
If you scroll through the photos, you see things that made me smile this morning and reminded me of the goodness of God - even now.
With all the grief and sadness in the world I wasn’t sure how I would handle today. How I would allow myself to grieve this loss? Today when there has so much WRONG in our world. In a post @deidrariggs shared today she reminded us that life goes on. And I realized that today this is my life. And I can grieve this loss. My life goes on... I am thankful for the 4 days we had her. On Friday I will remember each event of her last day and I will remember her dying in my arms.
And I will be both sad and grateful. #infantloss #trisomy18 #stlouischildrenshospital
Sometimes I think of Joseph as the unsung hero in the story. I am so glad he said yes.
A good example of obedience. It had to be hard and I need to remember that when we do hard things–love envelopes.