A secret is like a dance you do in the dark. It’s cautious with its steps, limber in its quiet strength, and loyal to its passion. It swerves past danger and leans into adventure, all the while sidestepping to keep safe from detection. For a time, it avoids the revealing the light it knows but cannot reveal. Yet it looks forward to the coming dawn when the beauty and force of its power breaks free.

Mary and Joseph shared a secret –a powerful secret that would change the world. She carried within her dark and pregnant womb the messiah. From a single seed implanted by the Holy Spirit, God would emerge upon the earth, breaking forth a movement of light that would stun a silent and unprepared world, many whom had forgotten about God.

How hard it must have been to share that secret, knowing t…