Of all the Big Life Events human beings experience, becoming a parent for
the first time is surely one of the biggest. Jesus’ adoptive father Joseph
discovers that he’s going to be a parent in the most extreme of
circumstances: his fiancée is pregnant; the kid isn’t his; and, apparently,
it’s God’s! Joseph’s response to this news is full of remarkable grace and
compassion. How can Christmas help us to respond to our own Big Life Events
in a comparable way?