What!

How many times would you say WHAT! to someone who showed up unexpectedly with some decidedly unexpected news before you would be ready to just kind of give up and go home to binge watch a season or two of Cheers on Netflix?

It would be hard to find fault with Mary bailing on the whole situation. I mean really, you can only say WHAT! so many times before enough becomes enough. But… she doesn’t. She stays. She stays and she says, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.”

Mary is on her game when it comes to her faith. There is a whole lot of Nope Nope Nope that could fit in here but instead of Mary attempting to stiffarm God she leans back into her faith and says Yep Yep Yep. Mary has had some faith formation somewhere to be that willing to do what God is telling her. We do well to ask ourselves if we would do the same or would we refuse and come up with what sounds like a good excuse.