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Do I accept everything that God offers me to live today, just as Mary did?

She did not say, "Yes, but..." She simply said "yes". Her life was in God's hands, in the hands of the Lord, and Her sufferings were accepted as were Her joys. Nothing could be refuted because in this "yes" was the total acceptance of what She was going to be and thus become.

When the angel came to Mary, of course it was an event for Her but She did not seek to know who She would be or how it would happen. She did not say: "I am betrothed to Joseph. What will he think?" No, She did not even have the presence of mind to tell him such things which seemed so futile to Her. She had said "yes." She said: "My God, I will do what you want." From that day on, Mary's fiat is the "yes" that She said to the angel. She never asked Herself a single question about Her future. We must take this "yes" literally because when you say "yes," you always go back on your yes: "Yes, but..." She did not say, "Yes, but..." She simply said "yes". Her life was in God's hands, in the hands of the Lord, and Her sufferings were accepted, as were Her joys. Nothing could be refuted because in this "yes" was the total acceptance of what She was going to be and thus become.

Why this "yes" when She was still a child? That is faith. The boundless consciousness of that "yes" spoke within Her. She could not even have imagined saying a different "yes". The "yes" to God was the expectation that no one could have imagined receiving from God. The language of God through an angel that was sent to Her was the sign that She was chosen for this. She never asked why they had chosen Her. Unlike us who are always asking why me? Why me? No. There is no why.

In Mary 's "yes" was the acceptance of everything that would happen to Her, the good or the painful. This is so true that, much later, when the sword pierced Her heart, that is to say, at the death of Her Son, it is with the same "yes" that She accepted it. She never asked God, "Why have you abandoned me?" No. She never said that. If the Son uttered it, it is out of humility, in order to raise human consciousness, but She never said it. This means that all Her life She lived a human life with its complications, joys, sorrows and sufferings, but She never tried to find out what would become of Her tomorrow. It is therefore a logical continuation of the "yes" and all that happened later, that when Joseph came to find Her after the dream with the angel, She did not automatically ask: "Will he reject me? Will he throw me out to be stoned to death?" He had the right to do so. She never asked this question and it means that when She accepted to live it, it was final. She did not go back on what She said or what She thought. It was a child's "yes." It was this extraordinary brilliant "yes" for mankind. She agreed to bear the fruit that would become the Savior of the world.

Through the way She lived, Mary did not put herself on a different level than any other person. She never changed in Her whole life. She was always Herself with those She loved and with Her whole village. Wherever She went, She was Mary, Mary the happy one, Mary the brave one, Mary who reached out, always smiling, who worked hard to feed Her family and do all the household chores, all the different tasks that life asked of Her at the time. She never refused Her place. She never asked to change places. She was Herself from the day She said yes, until the day She fell asleep so that today we could all pray to Her.