For sure, the Bible is filled with awesome and bigger-than-life stories, this one included. Certainly the Bible leads us at times to such a great mystery too wonderful, amazing or awesome to behold.
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How much will we allow our Lord to love us?
Now this, yes; this is Divine Joy, spoken in a wonderful question or almost disbelief: “And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?”
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We should see ourselves as Mary
Are there limits as to how much your/our God can reach into our deepest spirit and love us into a new reality?
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God is with us!
The story of the promise to be fulfilled as the word is spoken into a birthed human, and in the most dramatic way possible, God becomes hu-man (and therefore, also hu-woman).
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It begins
We are not quite through with the third week of Advent and we begin to taste the genealogy, the passing on of the heritage to the generations to come, the fulfillment through the line of David, the imminent coming of the Lord the Messiah.
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What am I looking for?
If a people SAY they believe in God but then don’t let this God into their lives — turn away, sin and sin and sin — do they not warrant the consequences of their turning away?
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Let Christ be born in you
And through that costly handing over of life it would bring about eternal life!
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Are we the first son, or the second son?
What is it about the poor? Why are they so special in the scriptures? Why do they seem to listen to God and walk in his ways more?
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Fire from the heavens changes, burns into us a new way of living, loving
Because what Jesus is saying has to do with change of hearts that are so profound that attitudes, ways of thinking and speaking and being are transformed.
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Listen. See. Take it into your heart.
And the Gospel warns that some will not hear, nor see, nor take it into the heart and will miss it, misname it, judge it, falsify it, refuse it, and in their own way become disconnected! And don’t blame God for it. God promised eternal connection, never cutting off or blotting away.
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