Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
John 2:5
“Whatever Jesus tells you to do, do it.”
“Say Yes to Jesus”
So much had happened in such a short time. She would have been around the age of fifty. There she was in a crowded room of waiting people. Her voice was silent, and this would be the last time she would be mentioned. He was gone, “in a better place,” people so easily say. At least she knew that he would never be treated with such anger and hate ever again, but she still missed him. “Someday” she would hold him again, but now, memories would have to do.
Some in the room had been faithfully by his side for a few years, but, God had formed him in her womb. Miraculous was the word for his birth. She was the only one who had been with him from his first breath to his last.
He was there in the beginning of everything, “All things were made by him.” He became flesh and lived like ordinary folks. Mary’s baby was first her creator.
It was written that Mary “kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Who could have imagined the path she had walked? “You are blessed among women,” That’s what Gabriel had said to her. Life had taught her that having favor with God is mixed with laughter and tears. She spoke few words that were recorded and slipped away from the scripture as quietly as she had entered.
Mary taught us all by example. A blessed life begins with a “YES” to the will of God. Then you live that “YES” from beginning to end. She gave us only one sentence of instruction; and we would do well to follow it: “Whatever Jesus tells you to do, do it.” John 2:5
“In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.
Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
But his mother only, in her maiden bliss,
Worshiped the beloved with a kiss.”
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
“Link to YouTube Video – In The Bleak Midwinter
