What Have We To Loose?

Centuries ago Blaise Pascal said: "What have we to loose in believing in God?" And if you think about it, there is nothing to loose only to gain! I am convinced that despite all our failures and mistakes, belief in God can only make us better; better human beings.

What do we loose in asking for Our Lady's intercession throughout all the challenges in this new year? By doing do we do not loose God, nor to we loose ourselves. We gain a mother's insight; a support in times of trial. I sincerely believe that we also follow Jesus' request to John (the Evangelist) to make Mary as his own mother. Maybe the difficulty lies in allowing Mary to be our mother! She will never refuse us, yet do we reciprocate?

May Mother Mary love and protect throughout this year.

Motherhood of Mary

We will never understand Mary's role or her accomplishments if we disregard one very important aspect. Such that touches the inner depths of our human essence. If we choose to ignore it, I cannot see how we can even understand many important parts of our faith.

With Our Lady's Motherhood our own humanity begins to embrace the Scriptures and the "Promise". The experience of being a mother (not in my case), or of having a mother, and even of needing a mother, strikes a chord with the Gospel narrative about Mary's acceptance in the Annunciation and the Incarnation. Mary was to mother no mere child!

Our natural human instincts, especially the "maternal" in women, must be so mirrored in Mary's Motherhood! One wonders, if we disregard knowledge about our human nature, can we get a complete picture of Jesus and Mary? Can we truly understand the miracle of the Incarnation without understanding what humanity is, in essence? How can we discover what we are destined for, if we don't even understand our way of simply being, human?

Yarm's conclusion: Thank God for my own Mother and for all Mothers! They have given us not only life, but a better appreciation of Jesus through Mary!