Mary, Did You Know

For Mary, the mother of the Son of God, there was no imagining or misconstruing of the sacred. She knew who the baby was that lay against her breast. She knew of his promised destiny. Perhaps she knew that the deaf, lame, and blind awaited his cure and that many would look to him for salvation and the promises of eternity. Yet, she did not boast in her knowledge that night or in the days that followed. Instead, she reverently kept all these things and pondered them in her Susan Easton Black