When I became pregnant for the first time, I thought, "Why can't an expectant mother feel the joys of forthcoming parenthood as a father does, without the kind of distress that sometimes accompanies pregnancy and delivery?
Jesus had just completed a successful journey of teaching and healing throughout the region of Galilee, and he was returning to share the truth of God and man with his hometown of Nazareth.
Even though I grew up in a family of Christian Scientists and attended a school and camp with children of the same background, for many years after leaving school I treated Christian Science only as a pleasant philosophy.
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