It was cold, very cold. The freezing rain spattering on his head while he ran. Right now he knew that nothing would stop him from running. He needed to find help, desperately. His young and beautiful wife was going to have a child. His son. It didn't matter who the baby was. The only thing he knew is that he loved the soon to be born baby, with all his might and soul. He was running and searching for more than an hour and remembering the pain in Miriam's face was beginning to make him panicky.
"Please God help me!" Joseph thought frantically. "Please, please help me find a midwife!" "I'm a man, I know how to work and sculpture in wood, but I don't know how to give birth to a child!" "I don't even know how to do my bed!" Joseph thought embarrassed.
While he was thinking he saw some low light coming from a house, Joseph grinned.
"Hope is never lost when you give your troubles to God." he murmured. He knocked three times, hard. A ruffled man came and opened the door just enough to glare and see who it was.
"Please sir. Do you have a wife? " The man looked at him strangely and Joseph flushed as he realized how weird and improper the question sounded. Then he tried again.
"Please forgive the hour sir, but my wife is going to give birth! I don't know how to help her, I need a midwife!" he whispered desperately.
The man gave him a curious look.
"I'm sorry to say that unfortunately my wife is not a midwife"
Joseph's heart pounded to the ground, what was he going to do now?
"Do you know where I can find one?"
The man gave him a sorrowful look "I don't know, never got interested in these things. We are shepherds, so we only know how to give birth to sheep. Don't like it personally. Too bloody and messy in my opinion. I can ask my wife if you like, she may know."
Joseph nodded fervently.
"ABIGAIL!" he bellowed. Joseph winced. "Abigail wake up I need your help!"
A few moments later a young woman appeared startled and at the same time smiling sweetly. She looked at her husband in question. "This man needs a woman to help his wife give birth." She looked at Joseph in surprise and smiled at his panicked look. "Men" she thought. "But I never helped give birth to a child" she said.
Now Joseph's heart was constricted in pain, he had left his beloved crawled up in pain. "Please help me I don't know what to do" He whispered, warm pain filled tears falling down his cheeks. Joseph was a man, the kind that emanated manliness from every cell in his body, but the thought that he might loose both his wife and baby terrified him greatly. The couple looked at this man, who just stood there with his fringe over his eyes trying to control his trembling. The shepherd's wife looked at her husband in question, and he smiled and nodded. "Where is she?"