thank you mary

“For heaven itself was swelling within you, and you were the door.  Not in terrible glory would he come, this Son of the Most High God.  Not in the primal blinding light, nor as the shout by which God uttered the universe, nor yet with the trumpet that shall conclude it, but through your human womb, as an infant bawling and hungry.  By your labor, Mary, by the fierce contractions of your uterus, eternity would enter time.  The angel said, Will you be the door of the Lord into this place? “

And you said, “yes”.

-Preparing for Jesus, by Walter Wangerin Jr.