Be Still And Go

Luke 1:52-55“God has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly;God has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty.God has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of God’s mercy,according to the promise God made to our ancestors, to Abraham and to God’s descendants forever.”//After saying a risky yes to a divinely unorthodox pregnancy, Mary boldly declares a vision of God’s reign in which God throws “down the powerful from their thrones, and lifts up the lowly;” and “has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty.” A prophetic, truth-telling disciple, Mary announces a new order, in which the Creator of Heaven and Earth favors her lowly estate, while scattering the proud in their hearts. Mary’s vision of power topples the usual visions of power as physical strength, economic wealth, intellectual superiority, or military dominance. In her vision, the poor, the hungry, the lowly—they are the chosen ones, the truly blessed, th