Sept. 18, 2013

Luke 1:  ⁴² In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!"

Elizabeth is being visited by Mary.  Her words become a part of the "Hail Mary" Catholics pray. 

Elizabeth knew, by the reaction of John the Baptist within her, that Mary was carrying our savior.  How awesome it must have been to have such certainty.  Two thousand years later, doubt comes so easily.  To have been a character in the narrative, although not an easy life, must have been a life so committed to God.

PRAYER:  Lord, strengthen my faith.  Make me more sure of you, more certain of the path I must take to fulfill all the promise you placed within me.    Amen