The Last Day of Advent
She began the journey on her own (don’t we all?)
![Mary on the concrete bench](http://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Image-225x300.jpg)
and knelt in awe of what was to come
![Kneeling in expectancy](http://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Image-1-225x300.jpg)
before forging on
![the responsibility of being chosen](http://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Image-2-300x225.jpg)
only to have Joseph joyfully join her journey
![the mantle of companionship](http://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Image-21-225x300.jpg)
when they were promptly overtaken by the world
![Mary and Tall Joseph](http://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Tall-Joseph-225x300.jpg)
and taken to New Orleans
![Mary and Tall Joseph ride in a box to New Orleans](http://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Image-1-2-225x300.jpg)
where they set out again
![the New Orleans leg](http://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Image-2-2-225x300.jpg)
traveling through the early morning light
![dawn travelers](http://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Image-3-225x300.jpg)
only to once again get lost in the weeds
![the journey is hardest towards the end](http://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Image-4-225x300.jpg)
before getting back on track
![is the worst behind them?](http://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Image-41-225x300.jpg)
and within shouting distance of the end where it will begin
TOMORROW: ARRIVAL
* thanks again to Sybil MacBeth and The Season of the Nativity: Confessions and Practices of an Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany Extremist for this idea—the implementation is my own
and Epiphany Extremist, Celebrating Advent, Christmas, how to celebrate advent, Mary and Joseph on the road to Bethlehem, Mary's journey, Sybil MacBeth, the last day of Advent, The Season of the Nativity, The Season of the Nativity: Confessions and Practices of an Advent, the story of Advent
menomama3
Brilliant! Can’t wait for the arrival!
Ellen Morris Prewitt
The critters of the nativity are excited too.