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?