Tag: botticelli magnificat

And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord”…
Luke 1:46

The Incarnation allows us to see and hear and touch what we could only glimpse before in a pillar of smoke, a tabernacle, a burning bush, a still small voice. God becomes magnified in the manger with unmistakable clarity and focus. He is rocked and fed, picked up when He falls, comforted when He cries, guided and taught and loved.

What was once remote from us is now up close, magnified like a setting moon becoming huge on the horizon at dawn. He has settled among us. He has become us.

“These still December mornings…
Outside everything’s tinted rose, grape, turquoise,
silver–the stones by the path, the skin of the sun

on the pond ice, at the night the aureola of
a pregnant moon, like me, iridescent,
almost full term with light.”
Luci Shaw in “Advent Visitation”