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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
Another “Be-Attitude”! My heart sings with joy at this way of growing into the depths of life with God. “Like Mary”. God who is all, shares all without lessening, showing us in differing lights how greatly we are loved. Mary who directs us always to God, to Jesus on the Cross and to the Holy Spirit who whispers and sings in our hearts.
Our Mother of Mercy, which translates in my mind to Mother of Love. We recognise in her oblation, our own.
This morning a moment of “light”. GOD is. God does not divide but rather unifies. We must never forget that God is greater than our physical beings: it is how we walk together towards God – in the belief of “be-coming” like Mary. Mary’s oblation was/is an emptying of herself in order to become a “Reed of God”.
We might not be able to explain the Assumption of Mary into new life, but that mystery will be with us until we pass over into new life.
As a little girl living in a very violent world I can remember trying to explain to my teachers that our beings, our spirits would not die. Some how (although I did not know how) our beings which I called our souls would continue to be – with God. Ink the years that have passed I have thought of my child-like belief and recognize it as a gift from God.
To be like Mary. Another whispered promise. God is all: therefore there is no need to divide and measure who is greater and who is less than. In a way we stand at the gate of the Garden of Eden; waiting for the door to be opened and welcomed in…