Loving Dare To Be a Mary Challenge: Men Too

I Some poems write themselves Maureen McGreavey excels in pithy poetry So I do not love writing them, sometimes II When the Holy Spirit showed me a contrast Luke 1, a priest prayed for a son (Elizabeth & Zechariah) When Gabriel brought the good news, he doubted: "How can this be true. I am old; my wife advanced in age.") Zechariah was punished, but Mary was rewarded her asking: "How can this be, I have not known a man?" Truth: innocence! Zechariah was shut up for 9 months, until he said, "John!" The name of the son Elizabeth bore, the forerunner of cousin Jesus - Mary's faith stood not on education, nor upon reading ... When Gabriel said, "The Spirit will overcome you as you bring Forth the Hope of Israel: His name is 'YESHUA: God our Salvation!'" - It stood on simple faith; faith comes by hearing (His Name) Amen III We have this treasure in earthen vessles, or jars of clay ... This treasure, saints, THIS TREASURE, the Spirit of God The Holy Spirit in each believer; Spirit of God's Holiness Which is the power displayed in the Resurrection That is why I have optimism about you, Syria, Iran, that nation ... Because God makes no rejects, only Masterpieces Who knew? A girl of Nazareth, a peasant, would be "THEOTOKOS" - The One who carried God in the Womb - staggering ... No wonder my India once worshipped through the linga-yoni The Shiva stone representation of reproductivity To show the fecundity, provision, multiplicity, through God That power hidden inside the saints as Spirit: to obey Dare to be a Mary, beyond the issue of gender, womb & phallus Dare to be a Mary, birth the CHRIST child in you, with Spirit's aid: After all, we are to be "Little Christs" in an otherwise dark world IV When I see the devotion to honor mothers and daughters That no one (reading) is dead ... yet! I thank my mom, women in my lineage "What is impossible with men, is possible with God," So said Gabriel, the Archangel in Luke chapter 1. Nativity!