The 'Something' about Mary

Luke 1:26-56 tells the story of the announcement to the Virgin Mary of the birth ofJesus. Ford identifies and examines a pattern of six truths in Mary''s response, amodel for how believers should implement a God-given task that seems utterlyimpossible.ΓÇó Accept God''s Blessing of FavorΓÇó Ask the Right QuestionΓÇó Take Encouragement From What God is Doing for Others NowΓÇó Seize the OpportunityΓÇó Go on VacationΓÇó Make God BiggerEach chapter begins with a biographical slice of Mary''s life-not fictionalized per se,but intelligently extrapolated from Scriptural roots. Ford''s eloquently casual prosepresents Mary as a very young and vulnerable girl who received the most wonderfulnews in history. Being Mary, an unmarried, pregnant teenaged girl, could havebeen a death sentence during that time of Levitical law. In her faith and humility,with a spirit of praise, Mary chose to let go and let God.