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Numbers 6:22-27 | Galatians 4:4-7 | Luke 2:16-21
What was God knowing before breathing love into being?
What was God knowing of compassion and mercy that humanity rejected?
What was God knowing that compelled prophets to prophesy the inconceivable?
What was God knowing to include a woman in this significant experience of salvation history?
What was God knowing for God to choose her in spite of man’s obstacles?
What was God knowing to rely on her faithfulness beyond honor and shame?
What was God knowing of her formation on and by the margins?
What was God knowing to send God’s messenger to visit her unannounced?
What was God knowing to ask this woman named Maryam to literally mother the Word of God?
What was God knowing to invite this young woman to fully participate in the Incarnation?
What was God knowing to depend on her ability to make this unorthodox decision?
What was God knowing of her strength —
emotional, physical, and psychological — to bear this most unusual pregnancy?
What was God knowing of her person to have confidence in her brave fiat?
What was God knowing of her integrity as a woman of her word?
What was God knowing to trust her embracing the known
and unknown of this unconventional path?
What was God knowing of her capacity to grow in knowledge, understanding, and wisdom?
What was God knowing to see Maryam’s spirit expanding to be the Mother of the Universe?
What was God knowing then that God is knowing now?
What is God knowing now of the spirit of synodality working in
and through the hearts and minds of Maryam’s children?
What is God knowing now of God’s Word calling forth vocations
in the hearts and minds of Maryam’s daughters?
Have you experienced growth in your knowing of Divine Wisdom? What shifted for you?
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