An Advent Prayer of Consent
Mary said, “Let it be with me according to your word.” In her story—as much as we have of it, legend or tradition, myth or conjecture, hopefully holy spiritual imagination— Mary consented to a God initiated, Gabriel-as-emissary-presented God Proposal. She was wary. She wondered. Perplexed, perhaps she waivered as Gabriel kept angel-xplaining finally getting to […]...