In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me? For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.”
—Luke 1:39–45
LOOK: Mary and Elizabeth by Kate Green
LISTEN: “Praise the Lord” by Phillip A. Peterson, written for and performed by Grace Seattle Experimental Orchestra on Oratorio of Prayers: Supplication (2007)
Praise to the Lord
Who has visibly blessed your state
Who has rained streams of love from the heavensConsider
What the Almighty can do
He who meets you with such love
This post is part of a daily Advent series from December 2 to 24, 2023 (with Christmas to follow through January 6, 2024). View all the posts here, and the accompanying Spotify playlist here.
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