The Annunciation

Last week was the celebration of the Annunciation.  It kind of caught me by surprise.

I don't know much of anything about the liturgical calendar other than Christmas and vaguely where Easter is supposed to be.

The funny thing is that I had been having a premonition about it all the way on the lead up to it.

I kept on thinking about it, before I even knew that it was coming up.

I had never really thought about it before, and I am not sure where this thought entered my mind.   But I couldn't help myself.

The more I thought about it, the more I started to really understand the implications of the fact that Mary was fully human and completely within her will and agency to have said "No".

I had always taken it for granted that she said "Yes".  I know how the story goes, since before I can remember.  So much so that it normally just bores the heck out of me to even think about it.

But as I started thinking about it a few weeks ago, I couldn't help but focus on that so much.

All we really know is the story in the New Testament, so everything else that I was thinking about was just conjecture.

But I kept thinking about what that meant.  If she could say "No", then there was no absolute assurance that she would say "Yes".

So I imagined all the angels and saints in Heaven waiting with bated breath in eager anticipation for her answer.

And when she finally said "Behold, I am the Handmaid of the Lord, let it be done unto me according to thy Word" I imagined all of Heaven exploding with jubilation!!!!!!!

The kind of joy and happiness that only the Creator of joy and happiness can host!!!

This thought hijacked my mind so much leading up to the Annunciation that I was daydreaming at work, and so full of joyful happiness that I was practically crying at my desk!!!

Hahahahahaha!!!!  I bet my coworkers thought I was a freak!!!