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This song teaches us how to praise. The focus is God, his glory, his constancy from generation to generation and his surprising priority for the lowly and humble. He notices, shows strength, overturns power, provides and helps.
How amazing that in this place, with Elizabeth there, Mary was able to praise. She perhaps shared some of these feelings and words with her cousin, and gradually let them sink in over the years until she was, in old age, interviewed by Luke. This was the distillation of all that she knew and experienced and understood. This young, ‘insignificant’ girl was able to understand these very deep truths. The connection from her to God was the most intimate. Sh somehow was able to throw off any sense of pride, entitlement, fear or guilt. There was just wonder. This is an expression of deep joy welling up. We are seen, however small and frail. The joy that Mary experienced is ours too because of the life inside her. God did great things for this “me” and for all of us, every other ‘me’. So it rolls on: the joy of generations. God’s might is so big that it overthrows the world’s might and lifts and fills and helps and remembers. There is this great chain of faith.
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