No Room at the Inn

A young couple makes the eighty-mile, three-day trek from Nazareth to Bethlehem. The young lady is about to give birth to a child. This is not any child, but this child had been conceived of the Holy Ghost. She had never known a man, and yet her husband believed God that this would be no ordinary Child.

Multitudes made their way to Bethlehem to pay the Roman sanctioned tax (Lk. 2:1-3). Guests filled family and friend’s houses. Mary and Joseph looked high and low for a place to stay that clear...