Today's reading from the LEC Family Advent Devotional is Luke 1:26-56 - the story of Mary's visit by the angel foretelling the birth of Jesus, Mary's visit to Elizabeth, and Mary's Song.
I found this image an interesting way to think about the blessing that Mary received. Yes, Mary was blessed and would become the mother of Jesus. She gave him human life. But the more important blessing is that she is integral in fulfilling God's promise that he would send his son to save us from our sins through his death upon the cross and his resurrection. Mary had no way to know the pain and suffering that her child would encounter and the pain that she would experience as a parent watching her child die on the cross. Yet still she said, “I am the Lord’s servant. May your word to me be fulfilled.”
Psalm 33:20-21
Today's Advent Photo of the Day
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This picture represents the blessings in my life. The top of the picture represents people and events in my life that have blessed me -- my wedding ring symbolizes the blessing of marriage and a shared life that my husband and I have together, my father's wedding ring and my mother's engagement ring joined together to symbolize the blessing of life that they gave to me, a "mom" charm that symbolizes the two children that God blessed me with, and a charm in Chinese that symbolizes "grandmother" and represents the joy and blessings of my grandchildren Bethany and Caleb (who was adopted from China). The bottom of the picture was taken just a few weeks ago and represents four generations of our family.
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