When Christmas is done, the presents all opened, the dinners all eaten, normal life beckons. The question is, for the follower of Christ, what is normal supposed to look like? Joseph’s experience of the aftermath of the first Christmas helps us to reflect on exactly that question with three insights,

• Find your joy in the right place
• Be prepared to serve in silence
• Be ready to die before your work is done

Get up, … take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you (Matthew 2:13)