Posted on December 5, 2016
Magnificat
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“My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.” Luke 1:48
In this episode we continue our reflection on the profound blessing of saying yes to God, saying yes to the ways in which we are being called out of pride and fear and into redemption and creativity and wholeness and freedom and life.
Mary reminds us that this incredible journey only ever begins in humility.
Every blessing, friends!
Art: James Tissot , The Magnificat
For another lovely piece of contemporary art to assist your reflection visit this page.
Thank you for this podcast of one of my favorite passages in Scripture. I found the way you led the stilling and into the prayer time so helpful today and also love the contemporary art you found. Blessed.
thanks lovely xxx
Yay! It is lovely to have these podcasts for Advent. I have only listened to the first so far, and am looking for spaces to make for the other two in the next couple of weeks. Thank you 🙂
Thanks for being here! 🙂 🙂
On my, Lissy. I hope you and your family had a lovely Christmas. Meditating on Isaiah 11, both on the retreat and yesterday in your latest post, I was struck by the words: “And he will delight in the fear of the Lord.”
For most of my life I’ve grappled with fear. The wrong fear … and I know the Lord hasn’t made me for such. He is the antidote to fear. Delighting in the fear of the Lord is the antidote, the vaccine. All other fear will pale into insignificance.
How do we discover such delight? That’s what I’ve been praying for days now. And then I hopped over to your ‘home on the web’ and clicked on this post. Of course, who demonstrated the delight in the fear of the Lord better than anyone (well, except Jesus)? His mum: Mary.
And her words came alive in the way they haven’t previously.
Thank you, dear Lissy.
Bless you. Thanks Ian.