Plenty, you say.  What isn’t on my mind at this time of year:  marathon mall trips (making you wish volunteers were standing on the sidelines holding out little paper cups of coffee which you would grab, guzzle, and toss away as you jogged by)… planning a meal for 20… decorating the bathroom for Christmas (a lady in front of me at a check-out was buying stuff for that very thing)?





Mary had none of that to think about, yet her mind and heart were full of experiences unknown to us.  Talk about being overwhelmed!  Though, like any mother, I imagine her rummaging through the treasure box in her heart, choosing a thought, a remembered word or scene, turning it over, revolving it, like holding a jewel to the light.  And what of her Son’s future—what did she piece together from all that she had seen and heard?  Whatever she felt, she put all those things back into her full heart and kept them.





“But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.”  Luke 2:19