Of Men and Mary by Christine Watkins

Author:Christine Watkins [Watkins, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian, Nonfiction, Inspirational
ISBN: 9781947701052
Publisher: Queen of Peace Media
Published: 2018-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

The events of my life, I have discovered, haven’t happened because of coincidence. As long as I have remained in God’s grace, Jesus’ hand has guided me providentially. All my joys and all my sufferings have been his will. In a diary entry of past years, I wrote:

Jesus,

Nobody surpasses you in generosity and in love . . . You did not ignore my torment because many times you saw me weep in the shade of your Tabernacle. But I never asked you for what you have now granted to me. You know what treasure is the heart of a creature called by the precious name of Mamma! You know it because this creature was close to you for thirty years in an intimacy as profound as it is unknown. And notwithstanding that every throb of your heart and every earthly breath would be for the heavenly Father, you loved her and rejoiced in her. Only your love for the Father was above your love for her. And when you had nothing else to give, you redeemed mankind from up there, from the height of the Cross, with a final effort, you gave your last and most precious treasure, your mother, Mary. “Behold, thy mother.”

The greatest thing I ever did was to call out to Mary, at age twenty, when all the women in my life were killed in one instant. As I looked up to heaven and cried, “Now, you have to be my mom,” Jesus looked down from his high cross, and suffering with me, he shared with me his Mother. I am a happy priest today, and I owe it to the gift of Mary. I never could have imagined that the words the Lord gave me from my beloved Lea’s book would actually come true: “And if I take something good from you, it is to give you something better.” But he did. He did.

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