Back doing this after a hiatus of over 6 months.
Beyond Words Day 21
From the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner
MARY COULDN’T SAY she wasn’t warned. The angel came with an Easter lily in his hand and stood so still he could have been one of the columns in the loggia where they met. Mary had trouble hearing what he said and afterward thought it might have been just a dream. Even so, it troubled her.
It was not until later that the real trouble came. The real trouble came when what the angel announced would happen happened, but in a way she couldn’t have dreamed: squatting there in the straw with her thighs wrenched apart, while out of her pain she dropped into the howling world something that looked like nothing so much as raw beefsteak: who was the one the angel had said was to be called Holy, the Son of the Most High: who was the Word itself fleshed with–of all flesh–hers.
my reflection I wouldn’t be surprised if some people would have some issues with this devotional. Describing Our Savior Jesus Christ as a piece of raw meat? Seriously? Yet if he did become flesh of our flesh, the description is quite accurate. Thinking about it, the birthing process is very chaotic, extremely messy, and there’s more than a little ick factor to it. I know, I’ve been there, up close and personal. Yet, even with all of that, I can’t think of a more moving and sanctified event than the beginning of life. And even if Jesus did come out looking worse for wear, it doesn’t matter how you start in life, it’s how you finish.
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