The angel tells Mary, “The Holy Spirit will overtake you.”
“An angel tells the young Mary that God has elected her to be the means whereby divine love will be enfleshed in the human world. As a parabolic character, Mary represents us. She is a normal human being, which means that she is, by nature as it were, self-centered, self-enclosed. So she asks, in effect: ‘How can that happen? I’m alone; it’s just me.’ The angel replies, ‘The Holy Spirit will overtake you, and the power of God will overshadow you…’
This is my wish and hope: may the Holy Spirit overtake us, and the power of God-who-is-love overshadow us, that, blessedly broken open and insignificant, we may be used by love for its coming into the human world through our surrender.”
— George Amoss Jr., 2017
Religious writer
Today’s Invitation
Allow the Spirit to overtake you.
This Week’s Query
What does Christmas mean to you?
What is on your heart at this time of year?
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