Mary and Joseph

There are many Christians who refuse to think of God as a "work in progress", that the very thought that God could grow and learn is somehow irreverant. Yet, to me, the entire Bible is filled with such evidence, and the whole becoming human thing is the best example. How could God truly know what it is to be human without the actual experience? It's the audacity and willingness to even consider such a move that leaves me in total awe. While it irritates me to read in this chapter that Joseph had to help deliver the baby by himself… (how does he know that? was he there? I don't think so!) it is one possibility and one of the stories we tell to make everything about Jesus birth, life and death… more. But He didn't need to be more to be God, and in this case he settled for less… out of some incomprehensible Love we aren't able to begin to understand. Amazing Grace.