Travel

"Soon there were no more lights to be seen. We traveled through cold, dark forest, where lean wolves roamed and white-tailed rabbits hid from our train as it thundered through the quiet wilderness." An excerpt from the book, Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

The holidays are known to be a busy time for highways and airways. People travel to be with friends, family, and loved ones. Today we can travel pretty fast, unless there's a traffic jam or delayed flights.

Mary and Joseph had to travel also. Let's read Luke 2:1-5:

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.

As we are settled in on the train watching the forest go by and wondering about what's to come, what do you think Mary watched and wondered about as the donkey carried her to Bethlehem?

(I do have to say, I am glad we are traveling by train and not by donkey!)