She had the strength to withstand
Against the pressures of those who did not understand
that her virtue was not just to please nature,
that it surpassed humanity and pleased the creator.
Her intellect could not understand
that it was under her skin
of one whose womb would carry life abundant.
“Ordinary” was what she thought she was
and yet things beyond heart of man
circulated her body and nested in her belly.
She trod the world with a weak esteem
while the ground bowed at her feet
and all of nature hailed her “favored woman”.
She would lie on her bed
feeling weak and all alone;
like she was nobody to the world
while unseen realities filled her body.
-Senzy
When I wrote this I had been thinking about Mary – the mother of Jesus. I was thinking about how clueless and naïve she was since she was a teenage girl who just loved God but had not clue whatsoever about what she was about to become. She didn’t know the plans that God had for her life, and I assume, since she was only a teenager, she would look down on herself in many ways. I can imagine that she would wake up and look at herself on the mirror and think, “I’m not pretty enough,” “I’m unpopular,” and maybe even say her body is not well-shaped. She might have regarded herself worthless and too imperfect to be looked at for the task that was to be given to her.
I just realized that I might not be that different from Mary in many ways. At times I look at myself with a shallow eye, forgetting that God has great plans for me, like he head for little teenage Mary, I may feel like I’m not worth it but God has chosen me for a great task on Earth. Like Mary who didn’t know that in her womb was the King of Heaven and Earth, I think of myself as worthless while God’s divine secrets are alive in me.
This opened my Spiritual eyes to the fact that God has divine plans for my life and I should believe that great and wonderful things are already in me waiting to blossom at the right time and place. Like Mary, I carry God’s favor in me so I should stop behaving like I’m just ordinary because I’m not!
that her virtue was not just to please nature,
that it surpassed humanity and pleased the creator.
Her intellect could not understand
that it was under her skin
of one whose womb would carry life abundant.
“Ordinary” was what she thought she was
and yet things beyond heart of man
circulated her body and nested in her belly.
She trod the world with a weak esteem
while the ground bowed at her feet
and all of nature hailed her “favored woman”.
She would lie on her bed
feeling weak and all alone;
like she was nobody to the world
while unseen realities filled her body.
-Senzy
When I wrote this I had been thinking about Mary – the mother of Jesus. I was thinking about how clueless and naïve she was since she was a teenage girl who just loved God but had not clue whatsoever about what she was about to become. She didn’t know the plans that God had for her life, and I assume, since she was only a teenager, she would look down on herself in many ways. I can imagine that she would wake up and look at herself on the mirror and think, “I’m not pretty enough,” “I’m unpopular,” and maybe even say her body is not well-shaped. She might have regarded herself worthless and too imperfect to be looked at for the task that was to be given to her.
I just realized that I might not be that different from Mary in many ways. At times I look at myself with a shallow eye, forgetting that God has great plans for me, like he head for little teenage Mary, I may feel like I’m not worth it but God has chosen me for a great task on Earth. Like Mary who didn’t know that in her womb was the King of Heaven and Earth, I think of myself as worthless while God’s divine secrets are alive in me.
This opened my Spiritual eyes to the fact that God has divine plans for my life and I should believe that great and wonderful things are already in me waiting to blossom at the right time and place. Like Mary, I carry God’s favor in me so I should stop behaving like I’m just ordinary because I’m not!
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