/ by Edward Mullany

Which doesn’t mean she would’ve avoided situations where the discomforts of life seem to be imposed on us, or that she would’ve had contempt for, say, the baser functions of the human body, which of course are necessary to survival, and as such are ‘good’. She is, after all, the woman who, when the time came to deliver her infant, in a town that wasn’t her own, did not object to making, for that infant, a crib out of a manger (where animals feed), because there wasn’t room at the inn where she and her husband had sought lodging.