March 25, 2006

Annunciation

She struck the angel Gabriel as hardly old enough to have a child at all, let alone this child, but he’d been entrusted with a message to give her, and he gave it.

He told her what the child was to be named, and who he was to be, and something about the mystery that was to come upon her. “You musn’t be afraid, Mary,” he said.

As he said it, he only hoped she wouldn’t notice that beneath the great golden wings he himself was trembling with fear to think that whole future of creation hung now on the answer of a girl (Lk 1.26-35).

[Frederick Buechner, “Peculiar Treasures,” Harper & Row, l979, p 39]

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