With no room at the inn in Bethlehem where Joseph wished for Mary to bear her child, they took shelter in a stable. Their plight inspired the poet G.K. Chesterton to write of the hope caught up with the miracle child, Jesus, who was born without a home: To the end of the way of the wandering star, To the things that cannot be and that are, To the place where God was homeless; And all men are at home.