Mary and Elizabeth

I appreciated these observations on Mary and Elizabeth:

So when Mary learns that she is pregnant with the Christ child, she then learns too of Elizabeth’s pregnancy – also a miracle. And in the months when her life was most in danger over the questions and accusations of a virgin birth, Mary traveled to live with Elizabeth for three months, until Elizabeth gave birth to John.

What a gift, for Mary to watch and see, up close and personal, the ins and outs of pregnancy, from a woman who also had no biological explanation for this happening within her.

God paved the way, so that she may know.

And as he paved the way for her to know, he was growing John the Baptist within Elizabeth, who would be forever linked to Jesus: paving the way for the Messiah.