navigation: Intro,Pt 1,Pt 2,Pt 3,Pt 4, Pt 5,Pt 6,Pt 7,Pt 8,Pt 9,Pt 10,Pt 11, Pt 12/Epilogue Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22973 – 1050 Here’s the haps: You are working in the shop with Jesus who is sawing some lumber and boards to make a manger for the widow, Simone. You watch as he saws the board with careful precision and […]
navigation: Intro,Pt 1,Pt 2,Pt 3,Pt 4, Pt 5,Pt 6,Pt 7,Pt 8,Pt 9,Pt 10,Pt 11,Pt 12/Epilogue Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22972 – 1049 Here’s the haps: You often wonder why Nazareth in Galilee? Perhaps obscurity is better, but really, most of the people here are closer to criminals than royalty. The only nobility here are ruffians and rogues; cursing fishermen […]
navigation: Intro,Pt 1,Pt 2,Pt 3,Pt 4, Pt 5,Pt 6,Pt 7,Pt 8,Pt 9,Pt 10,Pt 11,Pt 12/Epilogue Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22971 – 1048 Here’s the haps: The large Hebrew-speaking communities just across the Sihon River are considered Egyptian territory even though everything is under Rome. It only matters that you will be out of Herod’s jurisdiction. While the trip was […]
navigation: Intro,Pt 1,Pt 2,Pt 3,Pt 4, Pt 5,Pt 6,Pt 7,Pt 8,Pt 9,Pt 10,Pt 11,Pt 12/Epilogue Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22970 – 1047 Here’s the haps: You think about Jesus as you hold him. You often forget about his origin and just enjoy holding him and talking to him and seeing his little smile, which by now is absolutely not […]
navigation: Intro,Pt 1,Pt 2,Pt 3,Pt 4, Pt 5,Pt 6,Pt 7,Pt 8,Pt 9,Pt 10,Pt 11,Pt 12/Epilogue Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22969 – 1046 Here’s the haps: As you wend your way to the temple, you find it hard to believe that the forty-four days of Mary’s purifying have passed already. You must go up to the temple to sacrifice. You […]
navigation: Intro,Pt 1,Pt 2,Pt 3,Pt 4, Pt 5,Pt 6,Pt 7,Pt 8,Pt 9,Pt 10,Pt 11,Pt 12/Epilogue Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22968 – 1045 Here’s the haps: The next several days are filled with strangeness and wonder. Curiosity seekers, the humble and reverent, even those who scoffed and disbelieved the shepherds all come to see the new infant and all go […]
navigation: Intro,Pt 1,Pt 2,Pt 3,Pt 4, Pt 5,Pt 6,Pt 7,Pt 8,Pt 9,Pt 10,Pt 11,Pt 12/Epilogue Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22967 – 1044 Here’s the haps: How the innkeeper’s wife has gotten the place so immaculately clean escapes you, but it is astonishing. As you think on it, it is better than a room, being larger and not covered with […]
navigation: Intro,Pt 1,Pt 2,Pt 3,Pt 4, Pt 5,Pt 6,Pt 7,Pt 8,Pt 9,Pt 10,Pt 11,Pt 12/Epilogue Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22966 – 1043 Here’s the haps: Bethlehem is very small and David was very prolific. Even on feast days in Jerusalem itself, you do not think you have ever seen so many people. You have been to every house in […]
navigation: Intro,Pt 1,Pt 2,Pt 3,Pt 4, Pt 5,Pt 6,Pt 7,Pt 8,Pt 9,Pt 10,Pt 11,Pt 12/Epilogue Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22965 – 1042 Here’s the haps: You can’t try to wait to see if she has the baby because she would still have the purification rituals to complete and be just as incapable of travel in either case. You have […]
Joseph Retelling – The Haps With Herb
