week as we get ever closer to Christmas and the day we celebrate as the birthday of our Lord and Savior. Most of us have heard the story from the Book of Luke and we have the visions of a newborn baby wrapped in swaddling clothes laying in a manger on a bed of straw. We can picture the sight as Mary and Joseph look into the eyes of their miracle baby and they soak in the wonder that brought Him into this world.

Mary and Joseph know that he is not the father of this child and that this little life...