Gabriel

(Google images. Image description: A image of a dynamic piece of art. A woman in simple linen dress and head covering kneels in humble reference to the left. She (Mary) is in a humble home setting with a jar to the left and some straw on the floor.  Light shines from the window central to the image. The figure of the angel Gabriel hovers to the right in swirling robes with a hand of blessing lifted high over Mary’s head. He does not have wings as depicted in other art – rather there is a sense of light, flight, movement and heavenly authority about him. A sense of reference and the Holy fills the image.) 

Gabriel

What would it be like

To stand face to face

With one

Who stands in the presence of God?

 

Daniel – who was sent to the lions

Zachariah – awaiting a child (who never came)

Mary – unsuspecting at His appearing

 

All knew

 

A prophet

Overwhelmed by a vision

 

A priest

ministering at the hour of prayer

 

A maid

in the common room of a home

 

An angel came

 

The prophet given revelation

He desperately was seeking

 

The priestly couple granted a child

Even in their years

 

A maiden

Startled at her role

In God’s plan

 

For the time had come

For His appearing

 

She spoke a

Courageous

Yes

 

And the holy messenger departed….

 

And at the revelation – illumination came

And the priestly couple (miraculously) conceived

And then the virgin was with child

 

 

Just as

God’s messenger

had said

 

(Daniel 8 and 9. Luke 1)