This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The real question? Would I have been a Miriam or an Adina? The house probably belonged to some of Joseph’s relatives. It says she laid Him in a manger.Īrcheologists tell us that in these Jewish homes the ‘stable’ was probably part of the house, maybe even a room, where some of the animals were kept at night. Scripture does not even call it a stable. We do not have the facts about this place. They are helpless in a strange town.”Īnd, so, they ended up in the stable.
“Our Lord would not want us to send them away. We have no room, no bedding and no food.” Remember how frightened I was? We must help them.” Wait!!!” In horror she says to him, “We cannot send them away. When Adina overhears her husband, the innkeeper, sending the young couple away, she pushes and shoves her way through the crowd.
Or, was her name Adina? What would the difference be? Tell them to go away.” And Miriam turns, stomps off and promptly steps on the foot of a child who immediately screams, more from the confusion than the pain. The rest have taken all the bedding and are sleeping all over this dirty floor. Innkeeper calls to her, “Miriam, we have two more people here, soon to be three – and a donkey. The cook is sick and the dishwasher broken. Everybody is tracking in the dust and dirt. When they get to Bethlehem, was the ‘no vacancy’ sign on the door or did the innkeeper direct them to the stable? Was there a stable? Was there an innkeeper? How could the innkeeper’s wife let that poor pregnant girl go sleep in a barn? Imagine that! Joseph and Mary go to Bethlehem to be counted because Caesar Augustus has called for a census in order to tax the people.
You know – the same old, same old retelling of a story that we add so many details to. Who is she? Ever wonder? She shows up in December in some of the Christmas programs.
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