At dinner tonight, I overhead a heated conversation between a married couple. She was complaining about his brother's wife. This woman was a complete dissapointment. She was lazy. She couldn't even keep a job answering the phone at an Episcopal Church. She wasted money that they didn't have. She had trouble paying the bills, but continued to ordered expensive take out. All the while the wife complained, the husband listened patiently until a smirk crossed his face and suddenly ended the conversation. The funny thing about families is that all of us, who have been married for sometime, have experienced these kinds of conversations.
I wonder if Joseph's family members had similar conversations with their spouses. While we'll never know, I have to think they did; it's just too common. So let's assume that a conversation like the one I heard happened between one of Joseph's siblings and his or her spouse. It might have been very similar: "Can you believe she's pregnant? I don't understand your brother. How could he stay engaged to her? What is he thinking? I think she's crazy, all caught up with that talk of the Holy Spirit causing it. Thank God, they had the sense to leave town. Your poor mother..."
If your are having trouble with your family at Christmas time, think of Mary and Joseph. They were the first one's to have holiday famliy trouble.
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