A Little Bit on Mary and Joseph

I recently bought and downloaded the Bible* from Audible and have been listening to it off and on. I find that listening to it is quite different from reading it. I talk to the radio when I'm driving alone, so the thoughts triggered from hearing the book while driving are not the same as those triggered while reading it.

While listening, I wondered what it must have been like to have been Mary or Joseph. Every day must have been electric. Consider the simple act of making Jesus his lunch. On the outside, you're smearing the peanut butter on the Wonder Bread and looking for the jar of Smuckers in the fridge while on the inside your entire being is running in circles and shrieking, "I'M MAKING LUNCH FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!"

If having your boss over for dinner is stressful and having the CEO over to a BBQ is traumatic, then what must it have been like making God's bed? The only thing I can think is that both were granted an enormous amount of grace and peace by God.

If not, they must have never slept.

She looks rested. I'm betting she was granted of grace and peace by the truckload.
* - The Catholic Bible, natch. None of that heretical stuff for me, no sir!