Grief and Joy
After searching for three days, Mary and Joseph find the twelve-year-old Jesus sitting in the Temple discussing the law with the learned doctors. (Luke 2:42-52)
“I have some experience now with the kind of fear that dwelled within the hearts of Mary and Joseph. It is actually more of a pit-of-the-stomach type of feeling. My own son went missing and the story did not end as happily. My oldest son Ryan passed away recently. He died alone and after a heart wrenching twelve hour search he was found. It was the longest night of our life, David and I.”
“Yet somehow the meditation of the Fifth Joyful Mystery brings me great comfort. Our Lady in heaven knew my fear, knew it in a very real and human way. To have a relationship with the Blessed Mother is to not only rely on her intervention for us in heaven but as mothers to rely on her motherly care and concern. She was a mother. She felt all of the feelings of love and concern and even fear that we mothers here on earth feel. She wants us to come to her and rely on her motherly comfort in our times of need.”
Please read the rest of Mary Ellen’s beautiful article at The Long Island Catholic.
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Michele Q. --
Catholic wife and mother of 10.
Homeschooler, small press publisher, avid seamstress, halfway decent cook. Living the Family-Centered life.
