by Marcia Mount Shoop
Isaiah 35:1-10; Luke 1:46b-55
“Mary can put her vulnerability into a bigger picture–into a major motion picture with a world-changing order of magnitude. This dangerous situation is not a sign of her shamefulness, but a turning point in her blessedness, in her own capacity to be a carrier of Divine Love.
Mary sings a lullaby to us across all these centuries and generations about the way God meets us in our vulnerability, even in our shame and says you matter. You are safe and you matter.
Mary teaches us about self-compassion and inner resonance–about the power we have to upgrade the mother within us who wasn’t mothered in all the ways she needed to be either.
Mary sings to us about how much we matter to God–and that God will do great things for us and through us.”
Watch the full GCPC service on 12/11/22 here
(Scripture and sermon begin at 32:20)