"And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."
People must have had much harder hearts back then, than they do today. They were turned away because there was no room at the inn!! Well, why in heaven's name didn’t somebody MAKE some room for them? Can you imagine the people of today refusing to give up their room to a laboring mother about to give birth?
However, Mary and Joseph were from Nazareth, far from home.
They were poor.
They may have appeared "different" to the natives.
They may have spoken with a foreign dialect.
The people of Bethlehem, who were not privy to the information of the Immaculate Conception, may well have considered Mary an unwed mother.
But, we modern people would give up a room at the inn for any laboring mother, wouldn’t we? Wouldn’t we do everything possible to help a poor family who decided to take a cross-country trip in the woman’s 9th month of pregnancy, even if she and her husband were of different ethnicity, different religion, and questionable morals? Of course we would!
Or… would we?
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