Mary and Elizabeth
It
is very very easy to romanticise the story of Mary’s bold journey to Elizabeth.
The internet is full of sweet pictures of two well pregnant women, both
overjoyed at their situation. In doing so we are in danger of loosing the
humanity of these two women. What really drove Mary to journey from home?
David Ewart writes, “before
moving too quickly to the magnificence of Mary's Magnificat, it is perhaps wise
to pause and sit within the intimacy of these two women's conversation. To
consider ourselves not as distant outsiders, but as invited and welcomed
extended family into a blessed conversation between these two women.”[1]
If
we move too fast we are in danger of missing the invitation to join them in
this private moment. A moment spent in anxious, expectant, fearfilled, excited
waiting. What did they share, and what do they share with us in this moment?
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- What anxieties do you bring into this moment?
- What joy is leaping within?
- What stirrings of new life?
- What impossible longings are become possible?
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