Don't forget our dear Joseph

     I wonder why Joseph didn't get to grow old with Mary. Why didn't he get to live to see Jesus in His ministry? Why couldn't he be there to comfort our Beloved Mother Mary in her sorrows? Maybe it's to show, that God uses us all as He wishes as His faithful servants. Because that is surely what Joseph was and still remains. He was husband, father, protector and provider of the Holiest of Holy families. His struggles were real. His fears were real. His joys illuminated the house in Nazareth. Imagine getting awakened by an Angel and being told to swoop up your wife and child, put them on a donkey and hurry in the night to escape an imminent death to the child, all the while, knowing this is the Son of God and the Mother of the Redeemer of the world. He had to show his manliness, his confidence his trust. God had already confused him a little , by making him search in vain for an appropriate place for Mary to give birth. Leading him to stable where the animals rested from the cold. Any other person would have been drawn to hysteria. For it was surely cold outside and Mary was about to give birth to the Son of God. Oh! The wonders of Our God! Joseph, and all of his Holiness , trusted. He trusted many, many times. The Holy Family, in each of their selves, teaches us all great and Sacred lessons. Mary, in her obedience and trust in God. Jesus, in His God/man kinship of loyalty, and dear St Joseph, a conqueror to his own will, thus receiving the crown of Husband, Father and servant to God. 

    Let us never forget Joseph! His part in the structure of the Holy Family signifies and represents surrender and strength and love, as the one picked Lily whose scent never faded and who still reigns as our model of purity and love. 

     Holy St Joseph! I love you! May I be as faithful a servant as you, to our one true God!