Highly Favored

Monday December 22nd Luke 1: The virgin's name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you." Highly favored!! What had Mary done to make her highly favored? She was not a prophet, a preacher or a poet, she was just a young maiden. The term translated into English as virgin is more accurately translated as a young maiden who may or may not even be virgin as we would use the term. Just a young maiden of no virtue other than that she was chosen by God. When it comes right down to it can any of us claim anything more or anything less? All the greatness we create, all the good we do, all the wealth we have simply comes to us as a gift from God and all too often the manipulation of situations that create victims of children of God. There are times when we get a glimpse of Mary’s response in our own lives and use all these many gifts for the Kingdom. Those are the few times we can almost see the shimmer of Heaven off in the distance and hear the angels sing.