Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Now we just celebrated the feast of the presentation of Jesus in the temple in Jerusalem,

which occurred 40 days after his birth at Christmas, and soon after the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,

Get up, take the child and his mother with you and escape into Egypt,

and stay there until I tell you because Herod intends to search for the child to do away with him.

So Joseph got up and began to stamp his feet and throw a fit and say,

why God are you doing this to us?

Hardly. Joseph got up without a word, accepting the

will of God, taking the child in his mother with him and left that night for Egypt.

Wow!

Talk about having your plans blown!

Joseph and Mary had a home, a business, family and friends, safety and security,

waiting for them in Nazareth, and now they must fly as refugees to Egypt with only that which they can carry.

Now I haven't been chased by a king who is a paranoid psychopathic murderer, but I have had my own plans blown,

and I usually don't react as well as Joseph and Mary.

Normally, I react with fear and anger.

Now, we must be responsible, make plans, take action and follow through, but we take this way too far.

We try to control all things and that is pride and the amount of pride we suffer

is brought to light with flights cancelled, sickness, people, events and circumstances,

all of which we cannot control.

These things bring out our pride. Now you may respond well to some of these,

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