Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Why?

why did God use Mary?
Couldn't He have used Barbara,
or Elizabeth, or Martha?
Why does the Church teach her Immaculate conception?
is it some kind of trick to make people worship Mary?
Why would the early Church do such a thing?
Why were the earliest buildings ever built to be churches
dedicated to Mary?
in the East and West?
why did God who made the world through Jesus the Word
bring Jesus to the world to re-make the world through Mary?
it is simple..
sin entered the world through the a woman named Eve
who was reaching for something other than God
salvation enters the world through a woman not reaching,
but instead with open hands receiving His will.
God chooses the lowly and the ignored to announce His love
glory to God is not glory to us
we get it mixed up most of the time
Mary is special because of Who she bore
and we are only special because of Whose we are.
this is why Paul gloried in his weakness
not his strength
it's why Jesus didn't reach for anything out of His right
instead, He emptied Himself,
Mary even called herself the lowly handmaid of the Lord..
there is great power in all of this..

wkm


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