Friday May 15 | MOTHER |

Faith – mother – LIGHT; seeing nurture as promise |

Babies have no challenges with believing that the source of food and warmth will always give.  Mother’s milk and the comforting warmth of her body endure to the end.  A mother will always call her son or daughter her “baby”. Sons and daughters know that their mothers will nurture them on demand and without invitation, even when sons and daughters have their own families.

Hope – mother – LIGHT; trusting gestation |

We can easily underestimate the 9 months between conception and childbirth, especially if we are males, and I am sure that the purveyors of ungodliness have drummed up a gestation period for the realm of spiritual life. That spiritual gestation period is bound to be fantasy and nonsense, because the wind, like God’s Spirit, blows where it wishes and its origin, direction, and destination are unknown. So how, on God’s green earth are illiterate people like most Muslims, most Jews, and most Christians (and even those who see themselves as reformers) of the 19th and 20th centuries going to gain the trust of literate people in the 21st century?

Love – mother – LIGHT; embracing care |

Mothers are where God turns on the megalamp.  You name the mother and a little meditation will bring us to the traffic lights of heaven’s priorities. Do not be deceived by the annual fluff on Mother’s Day. Many people have no recurring or ever-increasing memo of their mothers. Even if the mother child relationship goes south the mother has made her mark by embracing the light of caring.

Death – mother – LIGHT; becoming portal to Immortal’s life |

To say that there is a cult of Mary is a moronic giveaway.  Do you think that the companions of Jesus recognized the humanity of Israel’s God without explicit recognition of Mary?  Or do you suppose that the early believers took notice of Jesus’ divinity without explicit recognition of purity?  It has to be said that holiness was housed in a vessel prepared for the purpose.

PREGNANT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

But when he had thought this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. (Mat 1:20)

THE CHILD IS LORD (YAHWEH)

for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. (Luk 2:11)

SALVATION IS VISIBLE AND TANGIBLE

For my eyes have seen Your salvation, (Luk 2:30)

Taking the eyewitnesses’ testimony as absolutely reliable the Word of life delivers food and warmth.  The company of the lady Mary is inevitable.  Through her son’s death Mary becomes the mother – grand and great – of every believer. Some Christians dare not call her mother of God because they have dug a ditch and can’t get out of it