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 Burke
Sometimes we're told to accept the unpleasant results of something we've done --"You've made your bed, now lie in it," but Dara reminds us...
Michael ODonovan
