After Mary said “yes” to the angel’s announcement, she was
not automatically filled with knowledge and understanding. She made her way
through life, like Abraham, “not knowing where she was going.” Imagine, for
example, how she must have worried how Joseph would react when he heard that
she was pregnant. Little did she know that God was already working things out
with Joseph, and that he would take her as his wife.
True, mature, adult faith does not bring us certainty or
all-knowing wisdom. In fact, on the way towards gaining a mature faith, we
often have to make our ways through periods of intense doubt and confusion.
(Consider Mother Theresa). But true, mature, adult faith gives us the freedom
to not-know, helps us to reverence and bow before the mystery of life and to
understand that the path may still be dark before us but that God will be there
each and every step of the way to enlighten us with what we need to know when
we need to know it.
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