Young Miriam (Mary)… made the courageous choice of collaboration with God’s plan for the Incarnation of Divine Love in a world of fear, loneliness, violence, and oppression. What will we choose? Will we choose the well-worn path of least resistance, clinging to or grasping for the power and privileges that promise a sense of security, sanctity, and superiority? Will we choose the false assurances of white supremacy, toxic masculinity, wealth accumulation, unbridled gun rights, mass incarceration, nuclear proliferation, and the doctrine of America First? Or will we choose to open ourselves up and say yes to the grace that will empower us to stand with Miriam of Nazareth and, with our words and our lives, declare the greatness of a God who casts the mighty from their thrones and lifts up the lowly?
--Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo
Image source: Jean Sylvestre, Annunciation (recycled steel; 2013), from his Infancy of Jesus series, https://artandtheology.org/2017/12/23/infancy-of-christ-metalworks-by-haitian-artist-jean-sylvestre/
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