"and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger," Luke 2;7 Every true mother feels a sense of awe in her soul when she bends over her own infant child; but in the case of Mary we may be sure that the awe was unusual, because of the mystery of the child's birth. The angel had said to her, "That which is to be born shall be called holy, the Son of God." The night of her child's birth there was a wondrous vision of angels, and the shepherds who beheld it hastened into the town; and as they looked upon the baby in the manger, they told the wondering mother what they had seen and heard. We are told that Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart. ( Luke 2:19 )   While she could not understand what all this meant, she knew at least that hers was no common child; that in some wonderful sense, He was the Son of God. A Hurting Mother  ~  It’s hard to imagine the mixture of love an