Weekly Theme December 14 through 20

Mary

  In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee,  to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

Luke 1:26-28

Have you ever had that moment of something happening in your life that you knew it was absolutely not possible except through the power of God?  It is in those moments that we come to realize that God is doing something wonderful and good in our lives, and in many ways it is a process of rebirth and renewal. How do those moments happen in our lives?  They happen when we come to the conclusion that we are totally and utterly powerless to bring about any change in our own lives, so we surrender to the power of God in our lives and say “yes” to what God wants to do in us and through us.  Through those moments, little by little and over and over again, God makes us into new creations.  At the same time, we need to always realize that what is happening in our lives is only possible because God is the one doing it.