God has filled the hungry and sent the rich away empty. Her song in the early weeks of her pregnancy articulated the basic themes that would be lived out in Jesus' life as recorded by Luke. One of the best things about the magnificat is that it is in the past tense. It's as if she had to speak of them as if they'd already happened in order to believe that they can happen. Jan Richardson writes.
Radical hope is found at the boundary where the outrageous gives way to the possible.
A child given to Mary's aged kinswoman. The courage to say yes to Gabriel's invitation to her, an unwed woman. About two years ago, UPC gave voice to a hope which some called an unrealistic dream for a church of less than a hundred members. We would raise the money to build a student center so that Presbyterian Campus Ministry could blossom in Tuscaloosa. Six months ago we wrote a proposal to Presbyterian Women requesting to be a recipient of their Birthday Offering.