Its time to start planning for Christmas! Not yet Thanksgiving & I have already scoured Etsy & other sites finding "perfect" gifts for friends & family. Then it hits me, ya' know, everyone has already received the perfect gift.
Ive thought about Mary (Mother, not Magdalene) a lot the past few winters. While its debatable as to what time of the year Jesus was born I always try to remember her as well these months leading up to the day we celebrate His birth. She was so young & had to have been scared; scared of the prophecy for her life & of the life of the baby inside of her. I see pregnant women & it makes me think of her walking through the sandy dessert lands, over mountains & hills, riding on donkeys or mules. I load the dishwasher or washing machine & I imagine her cooking or washing linens in a land far away from mine. I can feel her enduring people's hurtful & judgemental stares & comments...
& shes doing all of this while carrying our savior in her womb.
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