The final article in my four-part series on Advent from the perspective of pregnancy. As I think about Christmas and the birth of Jesus, I can’t help but to think about the process of giving birth. Here I reflect on both spiritual and physical birth as I try to imagine Mary’s experience with Jesus.
Birth is messy and unpredictable. And yet this is the message of the gospel. That we cannot predict who or how God will call us be in the world. And we don’t know how things will end.
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