What Mary And Joseph Knew

Childbirth is surely one of the most uncomfortable times in any woman's life.  It's a time when a husband, at a loss to help with the actual birthing process, would want to provide the most comfortable environment for his laboring wife.  But the Christmas Story, the accounts given us in the four Gospels, indicate that few comforts were Mary and Joseph's as they stopped in Bethlehem at a very vulnerable and physically uncomfortable time.