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TITLE: Mary's Life Song | Previous Challenge Entry
By Linda Gage
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“Why, Oh why does my son have to go through this?”
Hesitantly, she lifted her eyes. Grief overtook her. Her forehead hit the ground for another round of pleading to God.
Her son Jesus was nailed to a cross; his body limp, skin shredded and bloody from beating, eyes so swollen they were just slits. Jesus was talking to God too. Mary could not hear him. She was having her own conversation with God.
Flashbacks of the day an angel visited her came to her. She was in wonderment, awe and fear when she heard the words of his message. She was chosen to have God’s own son! She immediately accepted what the angel told her. That she, a virgin, would conceive by the Holy Spirit and become the mother of God. Temporary anguish over what Joseph would think was alleviated. Joseph, too, received a message from an angel confirming this Child is of God. Her spontaneous trip to visit her relative Elizabeth was spurned by a bout of fear of being accused of adultery and being stoned to death. She trekked to Judea alone with her emotions as up and down as the hills. Feeling God’s strength one minute just to have faith dive into fear the next.
Mary rocked back and forth, then something sharp broke the skin on her forearm. When her eyes opened for a split-second she saw the blood, her blood. It was startling. Her reflex was to look up to her Son.
This surreal scene was reality. He was still hanging on that cross, bleeding and suffering. Though she could not hear him she could tell that Jesus was talking to the two men that were hanging on crosses on either side of Him.
She shouted toward the grey ominous sky, “God, what will we do without Jesus?”
Just then some men passing by hurled insults at Jesus and yelled, “Save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”
Darkness came over the land and there was complete silence.
She heard Jesus cry out, “My God, my God why have you forsaken me?”
The ground shook, rocks split and tombs broke open. Jesus was gone. Mary was numb. The agony tearing at Mary’s soul. Yet, Words came to her mind. The words she spoke that first day she visited Elizabeth. Elizabeth knew about her pregnancy, knew it was of the Lord. Mary’s faith was strengthened on that day. And now today even in this treacherous moment those Words from God soothed her soul, calmed her spirit and comforted her.
“My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior… His mercy extends to those who fear him from generation to generation. He has performed might deeds with his arm… He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors.” (Luke 1:46-55 )
God gave her peace when she was going to have Jesus.
She watched as they took Jesus’ body down from the cross, placed Him in a tomb and sealed it. Her tears dried, heart flooded with love and she looked up.
“Thank you God for Your Son and Your peace.”
The rest of the story:
Sunday morning Mary went to look at the tomb. Again she had a meeting with an angel. The angel gave them the great news that Jesus is not here, He has risen, just as He said. The angel urged them to go tell the disciples. They will get to see Jesus later. Mary, afraid yet filled with joy, ran to tell the disciples. (Matt 25:5-8 paraphrased)
Yes, Mary was afraid, but fear did not squash joy nor did it stop her from being the first to spread the Good News.
All was well in Mary’s soul.
(Author’s note- no can really know what Mary was feeling the three days that Jesus was in the tomb. But based on her immediate acceptance of the angel’s message that she would conceive the Son of God through Holy Spirit and after another meeting with an angel she immediately believed Jesus was alive, I feel that she was deep in God’s Word, trusted God and was satisfied to be in His will.)
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