[ValerieUSA]

I was thinking the other day about Mary and Joseph... that Mary was such a good young woman, so special, that she was chosen to be the mother of Jesus - yet Joseph's first reaction when he heard she was to bear a child was to quietly break their engagement. That made her good enough for God - but not good enough for Joseph. We humans see so much of the outside, so much of the circumstances, so much of the rules, that we can't see the hearts of each other or the will of God. It took the visit of an angel to change Joseph's mind - but most of us never get such an advantage. We have to decide whom to marry without the benefit of the word from an angel saying, "This is God's choice for you." We're stuck with our own short-sighted choices. Scary. Free will is a dangerous thing. *L*

[lodwick]

Good thoughts Valerie - and the toughest thing is that the decisions usually are made at such a relatively young, and usually weak-thinking time in our lives.

[Mo1]

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[Servant of the Nine]

yet Joseph's first reaction when he heard she was to bear a child was to quietly break their engagement.

That is unusual.
Most men, if told by their 'virginal' fiancee that she was preggers and God did it, would have broken more than the engagement, and not quietly.

SO9