Why We Need Mary

Want to read something beautiful and meaningful this Christmas?

Then read Scot Alt:

SO ADVENT IS ABOUT WAITING, it is about sur­ren­der, and the silence of trust. It is also about repen­tance from sin and self-offering to God. It is about learn­ing the weight of a fiat.

It is about know­ing the pres­ence of God and the right­ness of His plan even as all our own plans slant and tum­ble and fall amiss.

God comes to us. He comes to us not because our lives are full of peace and there is money in the bank and gas in the car and food in the cup­board and clothes for all the kids. He comes to us because we have strife, because we are broke, because we have nowhere to walk and lit­tle to eat and wear socks with holes and shirts with frays. He comes to us when we are cry­ing and bro­ken, and if we don’t see Him it is because we are hid­ing our face when we should look at light and say joy. He comes to us because He is God.

He has come to us for two thou­sand Christ­mases, and He comes again on this one. If we are not afraid to look at light, if we are silent with prayer, if we say our own hum­ble fiats to Him, if we sur­ren­der and offer our­selves, He will come and fill the wait­ing manger and the wait­ing empty space that yearns for Him alone.

After all, He has come before. Noth­ing stops Him now.

What Mary did is the hard­est and most impos­si­ble of all things; and that is why we need Mary. She had no less fear, and pos­si­bly more, but she gave it all, with her will, to the God who made her. Mary does not teach us easy things, but she teaches us nec­es­sary things. And what is most nec­es­sary is her one word: Fiat.

Help me Lord; I do not know how to do that.

That's but a piece of it... so please read the whole thing... and take a quiet moment to watch and listen to the video there, it is incredibly beautiful.

Do it.

Be glad for it.

Carry on.