A Virgin

Got your attention? Listening to my Ipod yesterday while running errands, a song called "Mary did you know?" came on. I am sure most of you have heard this song, if not please do.

Some of the song ask "Mary did you know that your baby boy would give sight to a blind man, did you know that your baby boy would calm a storm with his hand"

That started me thinking about Mary and what it must have been like for her. I can relate some. A virgin and pregnant. What if that was me? Now in society today being pregnant and single is no big deal. Not a shocker. But back then it was. And growing up when I did, it was too. My family would have not talked to me except for politeness. I would have been shunned. A disgrace. People that I know would have stared. The church that I was raised in would have talked. Can't imagine what she felt like. Just being pregnant and a virgin. Much less having an angel appear to her. Now who do you go tell that to? I am sure that she was looked on a strange, maybe a little off. Talking to angels and saying you are pregnant? Not something you really want to announce. Yet she holds the greatest miracle in heaven and earth. So she stands-on one hand probably wanting to tell the whole world, and the other-shunned if she does. It even says that Elizabeth remained in seclusion for five months. Why? And what was it like telling Joseph? Did she rehearse her speech over and over again? Think of who saw her to prove she hadn't been with another man?

Oh the many questions I have for her when I meet her one day....til then, I wonder too....... Do you?