If we want to resemble Mary

If we want to resemble Mary, to be transformed from the inside out as the years go by, we must have this double movement of both momentum and passivity. "Yes, I am here," and at the same time, "I surrender myself to your will."

To live this way, one must really believe that God is here, directing all things.

In our own existence, if we say to God, "Here I am, let everything be done to me according to your word," we have to negate attitudes such as: "I like it, I don’t like it," our own judgment, desires, and worse still, our own little comfort.

The Word of God was able to take flesh in Mary's womb because Mary was both abandoned to the will of God and co-operated entirely, body and soul, with that same divine will. The material must be pliable in order for the potter to carry out his work. God wants us to be pliable, and normally, when the Holy Spirit dwells in us, we have this flexibility in us.

Flexibility is the watchword to make our hearts totally available to God’s action.

Father Michel Marie Zanotti Sorkine