Emphasis Preaching Journal

A legend says that Mary and Joseph stopped at an inn on their way to Egypt. The inn was in the desert and water was scarce, but the innkeeper's wife gave Mary water for bathing her baby. But she asked to use the same water for her own baby, Dismas. Dismas had leprosy. But the water, which had caressed the Christ child, healed the little leper and he lived just as long as Mary's baby did and died on the same day. The legend says Dismas was the thief on the cross who asked Jesus to remember him when he came into his kingdom. God intervenes. He breaks into history.