Big Toe Adventures

 My friend's daughter called her over tonight and said, "Mommy look at this big toe and take a picture! Do you know it's been on many adventures?!" 

And after I stopped laughing my smile just stretched wider and wider.

This kid is awesome; she's always saying the most unexpected things. Her perspective is unique and wonder-filled and hilarious. Last week she watched a movie upside down, balanced against a couch. She sings and draws and makes her mama laugh and just seems to exist in a world of joy - her heart is bent on delight.

I think Mary must have been like that as a kid. You know? Open to wonder. Seeing ordinary things in astonishing ways and then, naturally, seeing astonishing things as not so out of the ordinary. 

Because when the angel came, after her initial confusion, she believed.

She believed.

She believed that she would bring the Hope of the world into the world.
She believed that God would make all this impossible glory unfold right there in her own body.
She believed the extraodinary words from the astonishing angel right there in her own ratty little town of Nazareth.

I think she must have been an awful lot like my friend's little girl.

And oh, the adventures that she and her big toe got up to. Bearing the Messiah. Receiving the Magi. Being hunted by Herod. Escaping to Egypt. Drinking water made wine. Witnessing miracles and death defeated. The cross. The resurrection. Jesus. Glory, glory, glory.

Blessed is she who believed.

That brave girl. That little mama. With a full heart bent on delight.
And you. I wonder what adventures you and your big toe have gotten up to? 

I bet your story is amazing.

Blessed are you who believe.
xo.