Luke 1 Surprise...the strange world of God

October 23rd, Luke 1

       SURPRISE!!!! Your life gets to be altered forever! For Zechariah it left him speechless...for a few months. Either a punishment or a gift depending on how you look at it. All after an interaction with an angel Gabriel and an announcement about the coming birth of John the Baptist. Meanwhile in Nazareth...
       Gabriel is a busy angel. Mary finds herself in a conversation with Gabriel the  angel as well. It went something like this...

Angel: Yo Favored one, God is with you
Mary:?? UHHHH, this is odd??
Angel: Don't be freaked, your pregnant with a son you'll name Jesus. He'll be the most important
            person ever.
Mary: I learned about this in biology, there is no way I'm pregnant?!?!
Angel: God's bigger than your class at school, trust me your pregnant. Elizabeth is pregnant too. Lots of    
            "impossible" things are happening, but nothing is impossible with God.
Mary: What it is, so it will be. I am the Lord's servant!

       I think we let the strange nature of these stories pass over us. Like reading some fairy tale or fable with fake characters and a moral ending. But for these people this is the real life circumstance they find themselves. Mute with no way to speak about what's going on to your fellow priests OR fully capable of speaking and explaining to your father that you and Joseph are pure, but God got me pregnant! Yeah! Right!
       In the midst of God's unfolding story, there is much that doesn't make sense or is fuel for the rumor mill of life. God might bring a big surprise to you one day as well, that's how God rolls! God works in the world of miracles and the impossible, don't get stuck in a world opposite of that!!