I'm sure all the pain she went through felt like an honor, knowing she was giving birth to a KING! Even the Lord's blessings don't come without pain sometimes. And after He was born, and she was exhausted, in troop a bunch of shepherds, probably with lambs to add to the menagerie already there..... whoopie! company! But then their adoration of the baby must have filled her with JOY! What LOVE must have filled that stable.
Then 12 nights later, when things were finally settling down, and that awfully bright star had been shining in the window night after night and keeping them from proper sleep, here come 3 more visitors, dressed in great finery and bringing amazing gifts!! But I'm sure that as soon as Mary saw the Frankincense and Myrrh she must have known this child was already doomed to suffer a horrible death. But she also knew that God had great plans for His son, her son, and no matter what happened that God would be with her to help her get through it, like He is for all ofus.
So God Bless you young Mary for all your suffering so that I do not have to suffer eternal damnation! No matter how much I sin, because of what you did that night I am saved...... we always thank God and Jesus but shouldn't we also thank that sweet young woman???