I think I have posted this before, but can't find it... But here it is as performed yesterday at our BCM Toy Appeal service. There will be a few other pieces posted that were used at it as the week goes on.
He who was there when the universe was formed… took form
inside my womb… He who is the source of all good gifts suckled at my breast… He
who walked in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, I taught to walk as a
toddler… He who carved the commandments on tablets of stone with his finger,
learned them from me at the kitchen table… He who inspired the psalmists
learned their songs on my knee… It was amazing… I saw the son of God grow into
a man…
I know every mother thinks that their child is perfect…
Particularly their first… But my son was…
Why
me? I was little more than a child myself when the angel came to me… I thought
it was a dream. But if it was, it was more real than anything I had ever
experienced until that day. He said, it said... whatever:
“Mary
you have been singled out by God. You are going to have a child!”
“But
that's not possible,” I said “I'm a virgin!”
“Nothing is
impossible with God!” He said... “Just ask your cousin Elizabeth… she too is to
have a child.”
“Elizabeth!?” I said, “but she’s old… at least
thirty…” The perspective of youth...
“And everyone knows she’s barren,” I said, “It’s
impossible…”
“Nothing is impossible…” he said again.
And so it proved to be…
“All generations will call me blessed,” I sang… but a
mixed blessing it would prove to be.
I was to be Mother of the Son of God… Unmarried mother of
the son of God…
Selah
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