It takes courage to be unmanly...
Angels have always come to me in deep emergencies: when there’s something I know I must do, but daren’t do it…
That’s why the Angel comes to Joseph in a dream: to give him the courage to do an unmanly thing, and accept Mary as his wife.
If we think of these gospel stories not as literal truths about what happened all those centuries ago, but as blueprints and dreams…
Giving us a kind of mythical route map of the paths we must travel if we’re to heal our bad hearts and escape our broken ways…
Then this is a call to men living ina patriarchal society:
BE UNMANLY.
It’s hard. I know that only too well…