Paola Coronado pin this photo in Pinterest.
Here are my thoughts on it:
Jesus became a child too, a helpless little child. The first who accepted Him was Mary through the power of the Most Holy Spirit. St. Joseph knowing that the baby is conceived not from his own planned to abandon Mary, but St. Gabriel through a dream revealed that Jesus is the Savior . Joseph immediately accepted a child (not of his own) to treat Jesus as his own. Hence, Joseph was the second person to accept the child Jesus. However, there were also others who rejected him. There was no place in the inn due to business peak season and most violently the threatened Herod tries to kill Him so the (foster) Father Joseph brought Mary and Jesus to Egypt.
A child comes to this world in many ways:
*conceived and born of a married couple
*concieved but born rejected and abandoned by the father
*conceived due to infidelity and born illegitimate
*conceived but born causing the death of mother
*conceived and born with disability
*conceived winning over contraceptive pills/devices and born
*conceived and born aborted
etc, etc, etc,
Yet, how ever a child was conceived and born, Jesus went through the same path to bless it so “The Word was made flesh.” Actually it is through Jesus that all child was created “In the beginning is the Word…and the Word is God…all was made through Him (the Word).” Thus Jesus says “Whom so ever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes Me” Mt 18:5
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