Mother Mary (Ch. 1)
Mary Christensen was always a God-fearing woman. Her father, a pastor, made sure of that. Sunday afternoons, after his flock of worshippers cleared, he dictated additional studies to his daughter, ensuring she was filled with his same holy passion. She even met her husband, Joseph, at church. An old-fashioned man like her father, Joseph asked her father for her hand in marriage the day she turned 16. Her father said he could think of no better match, a Joseph for his Mary. He approved and they had been married ever since. Less than a year later their son was born. They did not name him Jesus, despite her father’s wishes, but instead named him John.