Thinking about Mary
Tomorrow is Christmas and for several days now I have been thinking about this Christmas season and what it's like with a new baby boy in our lives. My mind has come back to Mary over and over again over the last several weeks. I look at my son and in some ways I feel like I know what she was thinking as she stared at her brand new baby boy, but then obviously there are so many things about her thoughts and experiences that I will never fully understand and cannot fathom experiencing myself. The joy that it brings me to look at my son is incredible. When I hold him and he stares up at me with his beautiful blue eyes and flashes me a little grin because he's really starting to know me it is a feeling I could have never expected. I imagine Mary felt much the same way as she held her little boy and watched his face light up as he smiled up at her. I can not imagine, however, how it felt knowing that the purpose of his coming was eventually to die to save the world. To know her