Mama Mary!

Mama Mary, how favored are you. You were given such a power and with that came a great responsibility and the way you handled it was great. You were just 12, when such a thing was revealed to you but I can imagine what your maturity level would have been. Surely, it would have not been easy for you. You were born as a simple woman. We celebrate today ‘Girl Child Day’.

Mama Mary, help me look at every girl as my own sister and not as an object which would satisfy me. It happens to me quite often but at times it’s not so, its just that I require love from the other person and when I see unusual photos I get hurt. So Mama Mary you know form up there what’s right for me. This evangelical counsel of chastity that I’ve taken, help me to be faithful to it as you were. Surely things would have been very difficult in those times. It was difficult to convince St Joseph too. But it was God’s plan. Mama Mary help me to be like St Joseph who was your husband and who was kind, generous, chaste, patient, loving and caring... you know what more. Help me to be like him.

Born without original sin was another grace for you. God’s ways are different yet we humans need to cooperate in them. I guess it wouldn’t have been that easy for you to answer God’s call and yet you took the leap of faith. In all this one question arises in my mind: you went through this suffering or pain where you were responsible is it like God was still testing you till the end of your life? Even when Jesus was born, lost in the temple, went around preaching, finally killed on a tree was this all of a drama? I don’t think so. A king on a tree? How would it have felt at that time? Really horrible or much more I guess. Did you feel dry in your life or feel like ending it all? I do feel so sometimes but the people around me help me forget.

Mama Mary help me to vision out what I really want to do in this life – the purpose and surely if not for anything at least for my purpose my life will be a meaningful one. Mama Mary, you know me and you protect and guide me. Help and pray for me to Jesus so that I may ever be happy with God and you in the eternal bliss. May you speak of me to Jesus so as I enter heaven Jesus may say to me, “I know you..., my  mother had spoken of you.”