Thursday,
12/20/12
We
could take guesses as to Mary’s reaction to the appearance of Gabriel. Artists have
her praying, or working, not walking. One thing they agree on is in seeing her
as alone when she
heard the words, “Hail full of grace! The
Lord is with you.”
I
have a friend who never married. There was one time when a man proposed to her,
but she thought he was talking to someone behind her. That has me wondering if the
sixteen-year-old Mary might have asked, “Who me?”
She
would have been pleased to hear the angel telling her she had found favor with
God.
But
when he said that she would conceive she stopped him. “
How can this be, since I
have no relations with a man?”
It
was enough for her when the angel said the Holy Spirit would over shadow her,
and she took it calmly when he explained that the child would be called the Son
of the Most High. It was as though that son had taken shape in her heart before
he began taking shape in her womb. The deep love that would take her to the
foot of the cross already had her whispering to her son under her breath.
Having
got everything straight, Mary was queenly in dismissing God’s messenger, “I am
the handmaid of the Lord. ”
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