Three months

Dr Iain Jamieson December 14, 2024 3 3

Playlists

Add to Favourites

Save for later

Listen to this daily worship

Luke 1: 56 (NRSVA)

56 And Mary remained with her for about three months and then returned to her home.

This is the story, Mary and Elizabeth, two pregnant women in — let’s face it — some extraordinary circumstances, met and held fealty with each other.

I read this as what women are: communication, and commune over conflict. 

There’s a Celtic blues song ‘Women of the world’, written by Ivor Cutler. It says, “Women of the world take over, cause if you don’t, the world will come to an end and we haven’t got long”.

You should listen to it. I can’t, I can’t hear it without crying because it’s so true…

The story also speaks to the love God gave us for each other, the forgiveness and the acceptances and the fastening of relationships which, if given a chance, fortify and strengthen.

These two women.

These two women who had life in them that would change the world supported each other and strengthened each other to move the dial, to change the world.

But so can we all.

It’s all of us, that vision, that thing that God wants us to say, to birth into the world. It’s OK to bring someone else on board. Sense check. Let the message flow. Brothers  and sisters we are all prophets, let’s prophesy. Because we haven’t got long. God will speak. So let’s hear him.

Prayer:

Lord,

If I have a message then let me speak

Give me the check to make sure what I say is your word

And then let me sing the blues

In its rawness and its power

In its quietness and its power

In your word and that of no other.