Gabriel gets Mary's attention (Pat McDonogh)

 

   Mary, like any mystic, trusts her own experience of the Divine within, and surrenders to it. Do we? 

    Do we recognize God’s presence in both the miraculous and the mundane? Have we been taught to seek the Mystery and share the Mystery? How can we share the Mystery of Jesus - as parents, as professors, as priests, if we haven’t surrendered to all the stuff that we’re holding on to in order to make room for the Divine to grow in us, as Mary, the great mystic, did? 

    It is all present or it is nothing. God has our attention, or doesn’t. 

    Gabriel gets Mary’s attention. Who has my attention? Who has your attention? 

--Pat McDonogh 

Image source: Sigrid Blomberg, Annunciation (detail, 1899), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail._The_Annunciation,_1899,_by_Sigrid_Blomberg._Nationalmuseum,_Stockholm,_Sweden.jpg 
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