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This time every year I start listening to way too much Christmas music (although, can we really listen to too much considering it's worship?) which always gets my gears in motion. This morning began my annual thought cycle on Mary (you know...she gave birth to Jesus). I thought I'd share these thoughts will all of you lovely people.

It's so hard for me to wrap my brain around what it must have been like for her. I try to put myself in her shoes: I'm a sixteen year old girl and an angel appears to meand tells me I'm having a baby and I'm like, "...but I'm a virgin?" and then the angel tells me it's GOD's son?! I'm thinking I'm going to wake up in a hot sweat and pace around the room for several hours. Then I'm going to go back to sleep for a short time and then wake up and think it was just a dream. That is, until my betrothed comes over and tells me he had a similar dream. Then I think it's just a weird coincidence. Then I get morning sickness...that's when I really freak out.

Then all my friends start disowning me because I'm an unwed woman having a baby (I do not condone this behavior in this day and age anyway) and no one but my betrothed, who is fantastic and weds me to save me from as much judgement, believes what's really happening. I feel like at this point I would start having some shaky faith in what the Lord is trying to do through me which is why I'm always in complete awe of Mary.

I always wonder though, did she ever doubt? Did she ever just crawl in a corner alone and bawl her eyes out? Or was she really the woman of faith we know her as? I like to think she had a handle on the situation and rode into Bethlehem with her head held high and her heart bursting at the seams at the joy that was to come. At the same time, I still don't think she knew the extent of what was to come. This is why all the Christmas songs about Mary are my favorite.

I hope this has provoked your thought process. I'll probably continue to have Christmas themed blogs for a while, so get used to it : )

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