A Virgin a Day: Day Nine
Our Lady of the Linoleum Forest - created on Polyvore by MeriMagic One of the things that makes Our Lady so approachable is her humanity. She was a mother, laboring through natural childbirth, raising children, watching at least one of them die before her. She followed the dictates of her husband, even if it meant riding a donkey to his village of origin to be enumerated in a census when she was near her date of confinement. Though she is exalted by those who wove her mythology (scant as it is) into the texts that became scripture as an extraordinary woman, a woman above all others, what those who seek her blessings see is her humanity. She is, and was, one of us. While we know little of her life beyond the bare facts recited, we are assured that -- in the 2000 plus years since her death-- she has worked countless miracles. How can that be, if she is one of us? Each of us is a spark...
