Mary Did You Know?

Mary Did You Know?

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So many today revere the mother of Jesus, Mary.

I saw a movie last night “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” and can’t stop thinking about this.

Culture puts Mary on a pedestal but forgets the real story.

She’s an unmarried woman, who is pregnant and has never had sex?

I wonder what Mary’s community thought of an unmarried woman being pregnant?

I wonder what they said behind her back when she told them she had not had sex that this child was a gift from God?

Think how strong Joseph must have been to put up with the backstabbing that must have come with the news of this child.

And if he wasn’t the biological father, who was?

What names did they call her?

What lies did they believe?

In the movie mentioned above a family from what some would consider the wrong side of the tracks, become the stars of the yearly Christmas Pageant.

The snotty church people do not want such a family representing their “play” it would not be proper.

They forget who the real Mary was, where she came from, her social status.

The girl who plays Mary does an amazing job, just through looks and actions not words, showing the heart of Mary.

She doesn’t say a word but the fact that she is representing this woman overwhelms her and the tears she cries reveals the true story and an honestly rarely witnessed today.

As a culture we are so quick to make hero’s or villains out of ordinary people.

We fail to look at context and instead find the narrative that fits our agenda, purpose or ideas.

God is in charge.

He selects the right people even when we fail to see why.

King David was a pretty messed up guy.

If he lived in social media can you imagine what the trolls would say about him.

Perhaps we need to stop looking for hero’s or villains and instead give the benefit of the doubt to our creator.

He’s the one in charge of telling the greatest story ever told.