Old people connected by family ties
to a young virgin girl,
not only a virgin in body,
but surely innocent of the ways of the world.
Old Zacharias did what he knew to be right
and served his Lord but that
shred of doubt made him
deaf and dumb, unable to tell even
Elizabeth the wonderful news
or hear her joy and delight.
Like Zacharias, Mary could not believe
the marvelous truth at first,
but God did not need to shut
her mouth or ears; she and
Elizabeth both pondered
these things in their hearts.
The Holy Spirit so sweetly and
powerfully at work in this
time and place to birth
the only way back
to the God of the world.
Old Zacharias and his wife Elizabeth,
the young peasant girl Mary,
and the babies who would
herald and fulfill the dawn of
salvation; every soul ever born now
able if willing to magnify the Lord
through His Son Jesus Christ.
Amen and amen.
(From Luke 1:5-80, NKJV)
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