Luke 1:46b-55

What might Mary have said when she learned that she was about to become an unwed teenage mother?

I’m what?
Pregnant?
And you want me to tell people what!?
You know that in the eyes of all my neighbours, my child will always be regarded as a . . ..
You know what they will call my baby.

Thanks be to God for Mary.

Adapted from a United Church of Christ Stillspeaking Daily devotional.

Ron Buford is the former coordinator of the United Church of Christ USA ‘God is still speaking’ campaign and appears in the DVD-based progressive theology series, Living the Questions 2.0.

Artwork: Annunciation by Antonia Rolls

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