We have in Mary’s story what some call the second creation story in the Bible. Again it is a creation that is ex nihilo, or out of nothing. Mary is the one quite willing to be the nothing.
God
does not need worthiness ahead of time; God creates worthiness by the
choice itself. And as I have said many other times, “God does not love
you because you are good; you are good because God loves you.” It seems
God will not come into the world unreceived or uninvited. God is
gentle and does not come into your world unless you actually want God.
Presence
is a reciprocal or mutual encounter. One can give it, but it has to be
received or there is no presence. For many Catholics, Mary is indeed
the model of how “real presence” effectively happens. It is not just
through a priest’s transubstantiation of bread, but by the transformation of the persons who eat that bread.
Lord, teach me to be receptive. Amen.
From
Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality, pp. 178-179
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