3rd week in Advent -- Wednesday Luke 1:30-38
Mary
Mary . . . Mary holds the most
unique place in human history -- the mother of the Messiah. Human beings historically have reacted to
Mary in one of two general ways. We have
either idealized and romanticized Mary into some sort of inhuman feminine “ideal”
-- meek, quiet, submissive, unobvious; and made her into a semi-divine
being. Or else we have ignored her, not
wanting to deal with the excesses given her by others.
But Mary will not be
ignored. She stands at the juncture of
the divine/human encounter, in that mysterious place where “God became flesh
and dwelled among us.” Neither will she
be relegated to obscure submissiveness.
It took a lot of faith and courage for that 14-year-old girl to announce
to her fiancé, her parents, her friends, her community what she believed God
was doing in her, with her, through her.
Mary thus provides for us an
incredible model of faithfulness to God, of yielding to God’s will, of
following God’s ways.
O God:
You chose a young girl in a small
country to be the bearer of your Love for our world. Help us to believe that you can do all things
through us; as we live and pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
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