Is Mary's Song in tune?

Historic Mary, the mother of Jesus, has been adored and ignored. Catholics and Christian Orthodox religions worship her. Secular and non Christian religions honor her. Protestants do not think about her often.

Yet her story is infamous and impossible to ignore. A popular account of Mary is found in the Scripture known as Mary's Song. Mary recognizes and treasures the blessing God bestowed on her as the Mother of Jesus.

Let's take a moment and see how Mary was blessed.
1.   She was pregnant out of wedlock at a very young age
2.   She had to travel many days because of a corrupt and greedy political system
3.   She had no decent place to stay
4.   She bore her baby in a stall and had to place him in an animal's food box
5.   To escape a jealous ruler, she became a refugee in Egypt for several years
6.   She saw her son rejected by the important people in her community
7.   She witnessed her perfect son, sent to earth by God, suffer great injustice
8.   Finally, she witnessed the most hideous death humanly possible

Now, tell me again why she felt immensely blessed.

In her song she identifies three reasons for her blessedness.
1. she saw something beautiful to live for
2. someone supremely important knows her intimately and includes her in His story
3. God can be counted on to deliver on His promises, regardless of what others do

Miracle birth is a motif or theme throughout God's story, but everyone else was desiring a child from being barren, and Mary was young and a virgin. Why was her blessing of a birth so much more difficult?

What if God had honored Mary's heart to "make them stop" as the political system crucified her son?
God's answer to Mary's questions as to why it must be this way was not found in the moment.
You and I would be destined to eternal damnation, that's what.

Mary's blessings was that she was favored by God. Blessing has nothing to do with temporal and and visible circumstances. Mary's blessings was not in how God improved her situation, but that He used her in His-story.

The Bible says Mary clung to (treasured) God's blessings and pondered them in her heart. I use the word ponder often because I was so impressed years ago that "Mary pondered these things". Ponder is from the word symballousa, which means to place together for comparison. Its like focusing on a piece of a puzzle. While you are looking at the piece, you are really looking for how and where the piece fits in the whole puzzle.

Mary's Song has a beautiful tune. We just have to listen.

I think Christmas is a good time to ponder Mary's pondering, don't you?