It is said the Joseph and Mary was turned away because there was no more room for them in the inn. I thought to myself, “why would they be in need of an inn when Bethlehem is the birth place of Joseph?” Why didn’t they stay with family? Only logical, after all she’s pregnant. Who in their right mind would want to take a pregnant woman in a barn to have a baby, unless! Unless, could it be that back in those days everyone families had their own farm animals to provide food, like meat, eggs and milk. Maybe those who can afford it, had both farm animals, donkeys and horses for travelling.

My imagination allows me to visualize Mary returning home to Bethlehem with Joseph, pregnant and everyone so happy to see them. All families and friends gathered together and decided to cook and celebrate their return, when Mary went into the barn to help with the preparations and fell into labour or Joseph was putting away the wagon she rode in and as she tried to get out her water broke and immediately the onset of labour begun. Poor Joseph, he had to run off to get help for her to deliver the baby, after securing a comfortable place for her to stay, as the contraction was only a few minutes away before she began to push, or maybe he left her in the care of those whom was already there for her on their travels.

The stable (manager) does not necessarily mean that there was no room in the inn for them like some so called scholars want us to believe, or represented poverty, God’s humility. Yes! It is possible that a woman can go into labour whenever, wherever as soon as that water breaks. I refuse to believe Mary and Joseph at that time was alone and not surrounded by family and friends when all this took place. Maybe they were even there for a few days before it all happened. All we know is that they were in Bethlehem. That where the birth of Jesus was prophesy to be and there they were.

To travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem must of been far. For a expecting mother, it couldn’t have been close to her due date for them to have taken such risk without a wagon, just in case. They travelled in caravans back in those days, there’s just no way Mary and Joseph could have been the only one in Nazareth from Bethlehem, alone on their travel without company or assistance in the first place. But I believe they had more than that, they travel with angels watching over their ever move.

Who throws a birthday party like God, He didn’t wait till Jesus was a year old to throw a party and let the whole entire word know, His son has come. So over joy was the Lord that He invited everyone from the highways to the byways to join the celebration. It didn’t matter all was welcome when He placed the Star on Bethlehem in the sky to follow to find Him. Realize the enemy, with the Star of Bethlehem in plain sight, couldn’t of seen it to find out where the baby was. And the trap the enemy try to place to find out with his lies back fired on him (Matthew 2). Only those who truly loved the Lord was able to find the birth place.