Fourth Sunday of Advent

This week I plan to tell Mary's story as the angel announces God's plan to her. It is an almost low key conversation that she has with the angel. "This is what God plans to do?" the angel says to her. In her blunt way she asks, "How is it possible?" The angel reminds her that with God all things are possible. She accepts. Most of us would be ranting and raging and saying "Not me! Anyone but me!" She simply accepts that God is calling her to be the God bearer. I wonder, am I able to affirm as Mary did the wonderful news that Christ is with us?