They Rocked the Cradle that Rocked the World — Katheryn Maddox Haddad

Come meet the people who met baby Jesus. You are one of them. Go ahead and struggle with who he was.. Laugh. Cry. Do mental battle. Emotional battle too. Fight for your faith as they fought. Pause to listen for what you've never heard before. Then touch Jesus. This is the story of faith in the impossible. Hope in the inconceivable. Love for the invincible. It is the dreams of youth, the desperations of infirmity, the hopes of age, and the song of eternity. Follow the suspense as each person in Jesus' life comes to terms with who Jesus is. Both God and man? Both Creator and created? Both King and servant?  It is the story of doubts explained away, animosities melted away, misunderstandings cleared away. It is your story and mine. For deep within each of us is everyone who ever met the baby Jesus and rocked the cradle that rocked the world. Are you teenaged Mary or barren old Elizabeth? Are you Joseph who struggled with Mary's claim to have seen an angel? Are you the shepherds who were too smelly and looked down on by the good people? Are you Anna who prayed for the Messiah to come for 75 years or her friend, Simeon, who was as stubborn as she? Perhaps you are the wise men back in Parthia who searched the world for the meaning of the strange star. Or ~ heaven help you ~ you are the mad king who hated even the baby. Which one are you? And who was that baby born so long ago to an obscure young couple? They who dared tell God, We believe then changed the world forever.