Word to the Wise
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - Third Wednesday in Advent
[Isaiah 7:10-14 and Luke 1:26-38]Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word."
Sometimes the biblical accounts of things are done from different perspectives and with different agendas. Yesterday we were given the account from Matthew about not worrying about Mary's pregnancy. One wonders what he was told. Did she say to him, "Believe me, Joseph, I was told about it by an angel?" The bible just isn't interested in the soap opera potential of the story. Joseph's Davidic descent and willingness to cooperate with God's plan was the center of Matthew's account. Mary's willingness to cooperate with God's plan is the centerpiece of today's scripture. How often do any of us feel that we are part of something much bigger - something almost overwhelming? Would we not shrink from it? Whoa! This is too big for me! Although secular society extols "thinking outside the box," we seem to leave that to the "outside-the-box" thinkers! Is not the story of Jesus' birth an example of thinking "outside the box" of our empirical and secular social milieu? We humans are part of God's creation. God is not part of anything WE have created. Mary and Joseph found themselves part of something much bigger than their world of understanding, yet their faith moved them to cooperate (not just "go with the flow."). Can we not see our celebration in this season as something more than Christmas 2006? Can we celebrate something much bigger? Something timeless? Something beyond our "box?" AMEN
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