"How will this be, since I am a virgin?"
“So Dad, uhh... if Mary was a virgin, you know, that means she never, umm, had s-e-x, how did she get pregnant? I don’t get that. How can that even happen? Don’t you have to kinda have s-e-x to get pregnant?”
What confounded my little eight year old daughter is the same thought that alludes each of us and all human minds before and beyond: incarnation.
God, with us.
Christ for us, right there with us, invading sin diseased hearts in plain mystery. Confounding and concluding, noel, an invitation to end and begin again forevermore.
My answer pointed all explicable responsibility back to the story itself.
“Well, it says that God just made it happen. He created her body, just like yours, and if He could create her, God could obviously just make her conceive a child. He did.”
And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For nothing will be impossible with God." And Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her. (Luke 1:35-38)
“Okay. That makes sense,” as her eight year old head returned back to her pillow satisfied.
(Really?)
CONTINUE READING AT DEEPER FAMILY