Two From Galilee: The Story Of Mary And Joseph [Paperback]

The extraordinary bestselling classic that tells the greatest love story of all—the story of Mary and Joseph—as it has never been told before.

This is the story of two real people whose lives were touched by God: two people chosen by God to provide an earthly home for His Son. Here are Mary and Joseph—a teenage girl and a young carpenter—alone, frightened, in love, and faced with family conflict, a hostile world, and an awesome responsibility.

With an introduction from beloved author Marjorie Holmes,Two from Galilee is a compassionate, emotional novel of divine love for young and old alike—a story for everyone who finds the Christmas tale a source of timeless beauty and wonder.Marjorie Holmes, known for her fictional bestsellers Two from Galilee and Three from Galilee, was also the author of the long-running columns Love and Laughter and A Woman's Conversation with God. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, and she was the recipient of awards from The Freedom Foundation, The National Federation of Press Women, and other organizations.1
 
AND now she was a woman.
 
She was a woman like other women and her step was light as she hurried through the bright new morning toward the well. She knew she need not tell the others, they would know the minute they saw her. They would read her secret in her proudly shining eyes. And she knew she need not tell her beloved (if indeed he was still her beloved) though to speak of it would have been unthinkable anyway. He too would know. If, pray heaven, there were some way to see him before this day was past.
 
She must arrange it somehow … would arrange it somehow. Anxiety mingled briefly with her joy, yet her resolve was firm. Her parents would be shocked if they suspected—she was a little shocked herself. But somehow, some way, before this day was over sl³'