With Child

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.  Matthew 1:18

Foretold in Isaiah 7:14, each year we have a new opportunity to believe in the virgin birth, the prophecy of Immanuel. And there is also the chance to doubt it. The prophecy and the action both sit on a small peak. Believe and stand there with it in awe of God, or walk away down the slopes of doubt. For the anthropologist, amateur or professional, the doubt could come from observation of  human marriage. Arranged marriages leave out the boy next door, it is more likely that the neighbor's rooster was allowed into the henhouse one night, to use a barnyard metaphor. For the biologist it might be parthenogenesis, the development of an ovum from an unfertilized egg, which does not happen in humans that causes the doubt. There are a host of other reasons to doubt. Even Mary did not understand how it could work without her betrothed and the whole marriage thing. However, for those who will believe, we know that God is not worried over our likely or unlikely, possible or impossible, but works His own way in the way that He told us through His prophets. 

And His way is often astounding and awesome. 

Bucky