I'm pretty sure Mary had a mama.
Don't you think so?
They never talk about her mama.
There's lots of talk about Mary, of course,
and some about her husband -
you know, Joseph -
the carpenter -
although he seems to have disappeared
after Jesus became a teenager -
and just when a boy needs his father the most!
and naturally, everybody talks about Jesus.
But what about Mary's mama?
Mary had to come from somewhere -
she must have had some mama of her own -
someone who held her
someone who rocked her
someone who loved her.
If Mary was, indeed,
this gentle saint,
this mother who loved her son
who raised him to be a good boy
to honor his parents
to learn his lessons
to love God
well, if this was Mary,
how did she learn it all
if she didn't have a mama to teach her?
Now, you know, as well as I,
that Mary had a mama.
I've been thinking about Mary's mama.
What kind of person was she,
to give birth to the one who
would be the mother of Jesus?
What kind of mother was she,
to raise the one who
would raise Jesus?
By: Rebecca F. King