Our yes.

2 Corinthians 5:19

             We may not think of this too often, if ever really, but there is no longer any excuses for us to pass the buck. The cast has been set. Part of Lent  should be the realization that God really did become flesh and bone for us, as human as we are. In so doing he is passing on the message  ( and job? ) of reconciliation to all of us.  We are the hands of Christ now, we are the voice, we are the living message. But wait there's more! Part deux is the yes part. Just as Jesus willingly became human ( free will and all that ), so too did Mary give us the example of saying yes.

            I suppose yes is the really important part because it is our highly personalized response. Mary said yes unconditionally. The prospects for her as a betrothed young woman carrying a child not of the betrothed was bleek. An old fashioned stoning would seem more what she was saying yes to. 

          When we are called to act, do we say yes?  I think it is safe to say it is unlikely that an angel will appear to any one of us to ask for anything one-tenth as important as what Mary was asked to do. I think it is more likely that it will be a human being asking us to do something on behalf of God. Perhaps it will be God asking in our prayerful listening. The real issue is will we say yes?

          Think of anything, any revelation or potential reality, would you say yes? It really is a tough question. Certainly something to meditate on, to pray about, to listen for.f