Mary - what a Woman! At TFG this week, we flagged up her courage, obedience, and commitment to God. We explored the example she gives us through the faith in which she lived out her life, the unconditional love she displayed and the hope that she brings us. We looked at what it must have meant to have been the mother of Our Lord and reflected for a while upon its cost to her, even to watching her Son being executed, reminding ourselves that the Cross’s shadow is in the Christmas story.
We kicked around the fact that Mary’s Magnificat, is a moral, social and economic song of revolution; she speaks of scattering the proud (death of pride), casting down the mighty (exalting the humble) and filling the hungry (as Christians, we dare not have too much while others have too little.
We ended our interactive talk by knowing that Christianity starts a revolution in each of us, and we in turn must begin a revolution in the world. God promised that He would give us a Saviour – one that would save the world from itself. But he also meant that we would play our part in making his promises good.
Our songs reflected all these themes; Come on and Celebrate, Born in the night, Servant King, Tell out my soul and finished with Joy to the World (the Lord is near!).
May the peace of the Christ Child fill all your hearts, homes and lives this Christmas time and throughout the coming year.
Every blessing,
Deacon Olivia.
Further reading: Wm. Barclay – Luke and “All Saints to Candlemas”
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