May 31, 2007
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The Visitation
It was on this day, as best we can remember, that Mary and her cousin Elizabeth got together to talk about the mysterious pre-natal fix they were in. Elizabeth’s babe was apparently so excited by the visit and about one day becoming John the Baptiser that he started right off telling about Mary’s Jesus in the only way handy to him at the moment — leaping in the womb.
Times like this, privately available only to women as a part of their own rich communing skills with one another, are among the most important times we can celebrate in our remembering of who and whose we are. Further, the more we learn about biology, the more we know that virgin birth — parthenogenesis, the Greeks call it — is not all that rare in God’s scheme of things. But whatever we know can never by-pass God’s taking the very reality of it as a way of reminding us that she and Mary can do quite well running things, thank you, without any assistance from the males of the species who then and especially now aren’t all that hot at it.
On this treasured day of the Visitation of the BVM with her elder relative Elizabeth and in our own time as we turn more and more to women as our leaders both in church and state, let anyone troubled by this remember that what was good enough for God had better, shall we say with emphasis, be good enough for us.
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