When the angel appeared to Mary and she responded with "I am the Lord's servant. May everything you have said about me come true," did she really know what she was agreeing to? When the angel said, "Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you," was the Lord really with her? In all the trouble, in the heart-break? What about our own lives? Are trials and trouble a sign that God is not with us? Au contraire! Quite the opposite! They are there to prove the genuineness of our faith if we too are favoured by God.
Tom looks at how God gave Noah specific instructions for the ark before the flood but no further details. And how he often does...
Tom Burke
Michael ODonovan