Luke 2 ‘She gave birth to a Son’
Since the angels announcement to Mary, I imagine she could have been on something of an emotional roller coaster with her hormones all over the place.
‘…and then … ‘She gave birth to a Son’
In those moments as in the birth of many children was it as if everything had been worthwhile? All she had been through … all she was still to go through … as now, she held ‘Immanuel, God with us’ in her arms and she knew she too was being held in the arms of ‘Immanuel, God with her’.
Never having had a child I don’t know what it is really like, but, I imagine Mary bringing her child, Jesus, God close to herself. As she fed Him, she felt the warmth of His skin next to hers, and life giving nourishment leaving her to feed, energise and strengthen Him. As she cradled Him in her arms was it as if their heart beats became one as each tuned into the other and there they found their rest.
‘Rest in my love
Relax in my care
And know that my presence
Will always be there.
You are My child
And I care for you
There’s nothing my love
And my power cannot do.’
Is this how Mary, the Mother of Jesus felt as she held the Christ Child in her arms? But possibly then the realization of a reversal of roles as she was held in the strong, loving, nurturing, protective arms of God.
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‘She gave birth to a Son’ As she gave … she received …
What was it like to feel God growing within her?
What was it like to feel His unformed body being formed and shaped in hers?
What was it like to feel God move, breathe and have His being deep within?
What was it like to give birth to the Christ Child?
What is it like to feel God growing in me?
What is it like to feel His unformed body being formed and shaped in me?
What is it like to feel God move, breathe and have His being deep within?
What is it like to give birth to God?
For Mary, it was literal and only she can answer the questions. For you and me it is spiritual, relational, personal and intimate as we allow God to move and breathe and have His being deep within us, so that others might see Christ and only Christ in us.
Mary made it possible by giving so very much of herself and in doing so I believe experienced her giving was nothing in comparison with God’s; and teaches us our giving is nothing in comparison to hers.
‘His love has no limits
His grace has no measure
His power no boundary known unto men
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth and giveth and giveth again’.
Major Glad Ljungholm
Commanding Officer
Exeter Temple Corps, UK
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