Echoes from Eden

Journeying with Mary from Waiting to Welcome Joy Has a Body Joy, it turns out, is not an idea. It has weight. Warmth. Breath. After all the waiting, the wondering, the traveling, the trusting…God arrives not as a concept, but as flesh. Mary gives birth. Not to certainty; not to safety; not to a neatly resolved story. She gives birth to God-with-us . The Holy One steps fully into humanity: into hunger and cold, into vulnerability and need, into the fragile rhythms of ordinary

Journeying with Mary through Advent Peace That Does Not Rush the Ending Peace rarely arrives the way we expect. We often imagine peace as resolution…as answers…as finally knowing how things will turn out, but Mary teaches us something far more honest. Her peace does not come when the road is clear. It comes while  she is still waiting… while  her body is changing… while  the future remains unknown. Mary’s peace is not rooted in certainty. It is rooted in trust, and trust, whe

Journeying with Mary Through Advent Love That Cannot Stay Still If hope begins quietly within us, love begins the moment it refuses to stay contained. Mary does not remain in Nazareth after the Annunciation. The moment the Holy Spirit conceives something new within her, she rises. She moves. She travels “with haste” to the hill country to be with Elizabeth. This is one of my favorite truths about Mary: What God was forming in her immediately became a reason to draw near to so

Mary teaches us that hope begins not in certainty, but in a whisper that brushes the edges of our ordinary life…