by Marcia Mount Shoop
Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11; Luke 1:46b-55
Faith waits like Mary did—with confidence that God can turn the places where we have everything to lose, into a panacea—a remedy for what truly ails us all—not just some of us, but all that lives and breaths—that God is calling you and me to shed the way the world distorts our lives and our life together, that God gestates in our worst shame and guilt to knit together a healed world.