After Mary and Joseph fulfilled the judgments of the law, they went back to Nazareth with the child Jesus. They had been away from their city for about two months. What a wonderful thing that had happened during that short time: the heavens parted, and the Son of God was born. The mother returned with her babe, and she kept him with all her care, love, and prayers.
We know but a little about Jesus’ childhood and youth. Certainly, he did not form creatures out of clay and blow into them in order that they might live. Nor did he bring down foods from heaven. However, he was born in a wonderful way, but grew up in an ordinary human way. God’s Spirit and angels kept him in order that the spiritual characteristics might overcome the inherited physical effects, so that he might not be affected by any defect because of the devil’s plots. Therefore, he remained healthy in body, soul, and spirit; and appeared as all the children around him, of moderate stature, with black hair, dark eyes, smooth, thin body, and muscles, which were not weak. The distinguishing feature in his infancy was his rich wisdom. He appeared full of the incarnate divine wisdom, and his judgment was penetrating.
All the people saw his purity, truthfulness, love and power; and the grace of the Lord shadowed him.
His heavenly Father guarded him as the apple of his eye, for this Son of Man was the only Son of God, God from God, Light from light, True God from the True God, begotten, not created, in one essence with the Father. He had no golden halo around his head, nor did he become haughty. He trained himself in gentleness and was lowly in heart.