Belief in the past things and in the future things is easy but here and now, that’s different." But that was to be one day… There you have it, he said to himself. Even her steadfast betrothed, Joseph, struggles with his incredulity: "Messiah will come, in great power and glory, to deliver his people. Visited by an archangel, indeed – who would believe her? "For the first time Mary saw the width of the gulf that divided what people professed to believe from what they were actually capable of believing". What happens when an unmarried girl from a rural village in Roman Judea falls pregnant with the long-prophesied Messiah? Pretty, sweet-natured Mary is known for being a bit dreamy some might even say fey. How Far to Bethlehem? retells the story of the Nativity with a warm, unaffected simplicity all the more moving for its lack of effusive sentimentality or religious solemnity.
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