Nine Months to Christmas

It’s March 25th, which has led me to consider that since Christmas is nine months away, today would roughly be the day that Mary became pregnant with Jesus. To my knowledge there is no celebration of this day, but it does amaze me. At sometime around nine months prior to birth, Jesus Christ, fully God, condensed Himself into one tiny cell in the uterus of a teenager. God became embryo, implanted Himself in Mary’s womb and made His dwelling among us. How amazing and mind-boggling is that? And what was Mary’s life like over the next nine months? Due to divine intervention, Joseph believed her, but how many of her family and friends didn’t? Over the next nine months, as Mary walked down the street, did some people whisper, “Here’s Mary, the one who says she’s a virgin but is pregnant – yeah right… she needs a mental evaluation, she should get rid of the fetus, etc.” The Savior of the world – dependent on the nutrients from a placenta in the womb of an unwed teenager. How deep the Father’s love for us.