Its 7:15 Am. Nick has been taken to school. I have a cup of coffee already in me. I have read my usual blog devotions, but in a rush, and reviewed and printed out the notes I need for a funeral service this morning but here is another favorite site of mine. This one follows the lectionary. Check it out. I will probably add it as a link listing.
http://www.journeywithjesus.net
This week at Journey with Jesus, Sara Miles writes about Mary. So I am thinking about the Annunciation...and my own schedule and waking to the day. What was Mary doing when this messenger and message came to her? Surely she did not live alone , would have been part of an extended household, ...and what were the chores of that Galilean peasant girl? Did this visitation come to her before dawn, was the light rising? Was she fully awake? Had she been preparing a meal, washing a dish, walking to the well, mending a garment; was she tending children in an extended family, busy with a routine day? Had she slipped away for just a moment...did this come to her in some thought of prayer? Or...was it like the way the word of God comes to us today ...sometimes .... between the cracks of a busy day, during the day....in rushed devotions, caring for the family.... working along,....but the day goes on,and we keep going back to that 'in breaking", and carry it along, in the rest of the day..until it breaks wide open,,in our soul, into a new kind of daylight, until something new is conceived, and born? Maybe it begins with a pregnant thought...and nothing is the same.
Luke does not say. So we, like Mary... wonder, "how this could be?"
John simply says.... the Word became flesh.
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