12 Pearls of Christmas: Wondrous Mystery

Susan Good Stuff, Thoughts on God

Magnificat
by Anna Joujan

Holy.
Holy. Holy is the Lord. The familiar catch of breath. The sting in the
eyes. And the tears begin to flow with the falling rain. Or do the
tears fall with the flowing rain. What is it in these words that I
whisper that wrenches at my heart so? Why does Mary's prayer touch the
core of my being, so many centuries after it was spoken?

I think
it must be because I know that she was just a girl, just a human being,
with a woman's heart like my own. And so, when I hear her wondering
words, I can feel with her the emotion she must have felt. To bear the
son of God-what wondrous mystery, what glorious honour! And she was,
like me, just a young woman-much younger, in fact, than I am now. And
so, no matter how often I hear the story and read her words, it still
has the power to bring abrupt and unsought tears.

What a gracious God, to work wonders with such frail and faulty creatures as us!

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Anna
G. Joujan was born in South Dakota, as a Canadian citizen, and was
raised in Zambia, the child of missionary teachers. Since her family's
move to the U.S., Anna spent her childhood and early adulthood
traveling throughout the world thanks to various educational and work
opportunities . . . France, China, Peru, and Jamaica being some of the
stops in her journeys. Her undergraduate degree in French Literature
led to a Masters in Information Sciences, and to work as a college and
high school librarian, and a cross country coach. She has also returned
to Zambia multiple times to teach for individual families and for local
schools. All the while continuing pursuing her passions of writing,
artwork, photography . . . and running to a fault. She blogs at Full of Grace.

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