The Visitation: When What God Plants in Us Must Be Shared
- Kimi Nettuno
- Dec 9, 2025
- 3 min read
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 someone else.
Love is never stagnant. Love is never merely internal. Love ripens into movement.
She travels miles, young, vulnerable, newly pregnant, not out of duty, but from a desire to share what God is doing within her. She needs Elizabeth. And Elizabeth needs her.
The life of God in Mary recognizes the life of God in Elizabeth, and something leaps, literally, at the meeting of their two stories. This is the Visitation. This is love in its purest form: one heart carrying God toward another heart carrying God.
When God’s Work in Us Moves Us Toward Others
I wonder…Where in your own life has God been stirring something new: a desire, a healing, a hope, a calling, and your first instinct is to move toward another person?
Sometimes spiritual growth feels like solitude, and sometimes it feels like companionship that holds us upright. Mary shows us that we are not meant to carry God’s work alone. She travels not to escape fear, but to share joy. She travels not to hide her uncertainty, but to be confirmed in it. She travels not because she knows everything, but because she knows enough: Love travels. Love shows up. Love arrives on another’s doorstep carrying the light of God within.
Elizabeth feels it instantly. The child in her womb leaps, and she is filled with the Holy Spirit. Remarkably, Mary says nothing, and yet her presence is a blessing. This is your truth as well, beloved: The God you carry blesses others before you even speak.
Journaling Invitations
Let these be soft openings rather than tasks:
Who has carried God’s presence to me when I most needed it?
To whom am I being called to bring compassion, encouragement, or light?
What one small step of faith or love might I take this week?
Even a single word: one name, one moment, one gentle nudge is enough.
Embodied Prayer of Love
A simple movement that mirrors Mary’s steps into the hill country. Accessible for all bodies: imaginal, seated, or standing.
OPTION 1: Visual / Imaginal (no movement needed)
Close your eyes. Imagine Mary’s footsteps: steady, purposeful, full of love. Imagine your own heart walking toward someone who needs your presence. Let your breath be the rhythm of steps forward.
OPTION 2: Seated Movement
Sit tall, feet grounded.
Slide one foot forward as you inhale, slide it back as you exhale.
Switch feet at your own pace.
Let your palms turn forward, as though offering the God-within-you to the world.
Feel the rhythm as a quiet pilgrimage: “Here I come, Lord… here I come.”
OPTION 3: Standing Movement (walking prayer)
Stand with feet hip-width apart.
Begin walking in place slowly, Mary-like, steady, gentle.
Let your arms swing naturally, or extend one hand forward with each step.
Imagine each step as a step toward someone God is calling you to love.
Let this prayer become a mantra in motion: “May the God in me bless the God in you.”
A Closing Blessing for the Week of Love
May you recognize the places where God is moving you toward another. May you trust that what God is forming within you is meant to be shared. May your steps, literal or interior, carry blessing without your even knowing it. And may the God you carry become the God another person sees when you arrive.
This Advent, may you walk as Mary walked: with courage, with tenderness, and with love that spills over into the world.
Who is your Elizabeth this week? And to whom are you being sent, not to fix, but simply to be?
Let this question accompany your steps in the coming days.
From the Garden Within me to the Garden Within you,
Kimi
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