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What Jesus Learned from Mary: Christian Motherhood Lessons for Today · Arise Women of God

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  What did Jesus gain or learn from his mortal mother, Mary and how does that apply to us today?
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  What can we glean both from Jesus and from Mary to help us in our daily lives?
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  So stay tuned.
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  We're going to discuss this Jesus's role as son of Mary.
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  Stay tuned.
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  Welcome to another episode of Bible Women in Bathrobes.
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  I'm your host, Tamara K.
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  Anderson.
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  And joining me today is a wonderful woman, warrior of light, Amy Johnson.
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  Amy, thank you for being here today.
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  I am thrilled to be here and.
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  I am thrilled to have you.
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  And we are so excited to talk about this unique title of Jesus Christ as we've talked about him being the son of God.
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  That was last episode and today we get to talk about him being the son of Mary.
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  And we we see little glimpses of Mary throughout the New Testament of who she was and how she was chosen.
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  In fact, we've talked about her quite a bit in our series Voices of the Nativity right before Christmas this last year.
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  So if you really want to dive into, there's several episodes there, episode 50, 51, 52 and then 56 giving birth, the Nativity.
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  And then we even had a great episode at the beginning of this year, episode 62, where we talked about Joseph and Mary going and trying to find him when they left him at the temple.
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  And so we may tie in some things from those episodes just kind of harken back to what were some of the lessons he learned.
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  And we'll also bring in some new things that we haven't talked about yet about Mary and her example.
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  So Amy, I'm going to throw this at you and just say thoughts from the beginning about Mary and who she was and what Jesus learned from her and probably Joseph as well, but particularly Mary since next week is
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  Mother's Day is is and any thoughts?
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  You know, it's funny because when I was raising my children, I have four sons.
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  And so when I was raising my and a daughter, I shouldn't leave her out.
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  But when I was raising my sons specifically I would tell them you know, you need to be looking for the right kind of spouse.
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  You need to be looking for the right kind of person.
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  But later I started talking to them about need to be worried about being the right kind of person.
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  But it's interesting now that they're parents sometimes, every once in a while I'll get a prompting kind of to tell them, you need to worry more about being the right kind of parent than just being a parent.
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  So I had, I had, I have one who's struggling.
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  I haven't felt prompted to tell him that.
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  But then I had another who was trying to have a baby and took a couple months.
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  And I was like, you need to be more concerned about being the right kind of parent than just being a parent.
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  And when you look at Mary and you look at her life, the very first thing the angel says to you, to her is, the Lord is with you.
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  And to me, I'm like, she said, there's no better way to be a good mother than to have the Lord with you.
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  Because all the things you don't know, you're not going to find what you need to raise a child in this sin saturated world online.
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  That's going to be really tough.
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  But you will find it on your knees.
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  And that's work too.
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  But you'll get better answers if the Lord is with you.
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  And so in, in Luke chapter one, we read that angel comes and he says, blessed art thou.
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  Hail thou that are highly favored.
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  The Lord is with thee.
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  Blessed art thou among women in verse 28.
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  And I love that if we just said nothing else about Mary, that's enough, that's enough.
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  Yeah, there's a lot more to say, but that's enough.
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  I love that, that, that the Lord is with thee.
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  And I think she was a great example of walking with God through all of this, through this unexpected pregnancy for which she could have died.
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  I mean, they, they could have stoned her.
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  According to their law, a woman found pregnant without being married, she could have died.
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  So she was putting her life on the line by saying, be it unto me according to thy will.
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  That's another, that's submission.
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  So she had God with her.
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  She was will to submit to whatever got happened in her life.
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  And that takes courage, which is another quality.
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  Right.
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  And so not only could she have died being stoned, but she.
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  People die in childbirth.
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  It happens.
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  Not as much now, but it happens.
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  So, and she was young, she had no experience with that.
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  That's a scary thing to be like, okay, so today I'm not, tomorrow I Will be pregnant now.
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  What?
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  Right.
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  That's a scary thing.
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  So the courage and the submission, I love that.
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  Those are great qualities.
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  Yeah, they.
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  They really, really are.
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  And, and you pause and think Jesus needed examples of that in his life, of being close to the Lord, having courage, submitting to his life's work, which was not going to be easy.
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  And, and, and I also think about being persecuted and having to flee to Egypt.
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  That was something difficult.
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  And, you know, knowing that I can do hard things with God, I can leave the country where I was born, where everything is familiar, and go somewhere and God is going to go with me on that journey and
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  I'll be okay.
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  I mean, what a great lesson.
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  I know that.
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  My parents sure taught me that lesson when I was 8 years old.
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  We were living in Virginia at the time, and my dad was asked to be a mission leader for our church in Argentina.
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  And so they picked up all of us.
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  I was the oldest of four girls.
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  My youngest sister was two at the time.
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  And they picked us up and we moved to Cordoba, Argentina, for three years.
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  And I look back on that, and our family has had to pick up and move several times.
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  And I have children with autism.
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  And I just remember learning that from my parents.
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  That was that hard.
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  Oh, so hard.
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  I didn't speak Spanish at the time I learned it.
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  Right.
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  But it was hard to pick up and move and go somewhere and not know what to expect.
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  But we were trying to do God's work, you know, doesn't mean it wasn't hard.
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  And so Jesus learned that from his parents, just like I learned that from my parents.
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  And so I think that we learn so much watching our parents.
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  And of course, God was very careful about where he placed his son.
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  You know, he knew that Mary and Joseph were going to be amazing parents.
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  Perfect.
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  No, none of us have perfect parents here on earth.
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  No.
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  So it's okay, right, though, Because God can make up the difference.
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  Jesus can make up the difference.
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  Right.
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  And so I love.
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  I love that example of this.
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  And then it's interesting back then, because they were a poor family and because they were outside of.
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  Especially when Jesus was very young, they were outside of Judaism, you know, outside of their culture.
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  Mary and Joseph probably took on a lot of the education of young Jesus and teaching him their spiritual rituals and practices and teaching him about the Passover and stuff like that.
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  Which leads us to the Passover story, right, of them going to the Passover when Jesus was 12 and then him staying there, and Joseph and Mary, of course, frantically looking for him and Then Jesus, in his wisdom, even
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  at 12, I mean, I can't even imagine what it would have been like to be his mother.
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  But he told them, how is it that ye sought me, wished ye not, that I must be about my Father's business?
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  And then in, in the following verses, in verse 51, and, and he went with them back to Nazareth and.
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  And was subject unto them.
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  But her, his mother, kept all these things in her heart.
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  She knew who he was.
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  And he, even though he knew what his calling was, and he knew, he knew enough to be talking to the priests in the temple, you know, I mean, he knew a lot at age 12, but, but he was
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  subject unto them, you know, he submitted to his parents.
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  Anyway, if you want to build on that or go to the next story, I'm happy to hear any comments.
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  Well, I also think too that that thing you just dropped just quickly about Mary pondering in her heart kept these things that's said a couple times about Mary.
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  Excuse me.
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  And I think it's important to note that that's.
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  That just pondering and being with the Lord, just sitting in it for a minute is, Is really how the relationship with God grows.
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  It's that sitting in it like, okay, and, and, and sometimes I may have known.
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  Been known to, and may know people who do ruminate over negative thoughts.
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  But when we keep and ponder the things of God, then we grow in strength and wisdom and virtue and courage and compassion and love and all of these godlike, Christlike characteristics.
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  And so I think Mary is an excellent example of, I'm gonna just ponder these things and that's what's going to be what ruminates in my soul.
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  Oh, I love that so much.
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  That is such a beautiful observation.
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  And you know what's funny is we can then take that and see examples of it in Jesus's life.
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  How many times are there in the scriptures where Jesus stepped away and, you know, woke up early and he went into the wilderness to ponder, to pray?
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  He probably learned that from his mother.
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  You know, and we learn a lot by example, right?
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  More than by preaching.
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  And so you watch.
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  I remember hearing a story years ago of someone whose uncle had died being killed in the war.
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  Maybe it's been a long time.
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  So I think that's what it was.
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  And they went in and to their.
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  They went to the door of their mother's room and she was on her knees weeping.
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  Things like that teach a really big lesson.
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  Can you be found turning to God when you're grieving, when things aren't working the way you want them to work.
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  Can you be found grieving to God?
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  Or are you ruminating to yourself?
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  Or are you gossiping to someone else?
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  Like, where?
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  And I'm not saying that the.
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  That talking to someone else, not God, doesn't have its place, because it does, and that's its own thing.
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  But your children need to see when life is so heavy that it forces me to grieve, or that's when I'm on my knees and that I.
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  I understand that being on my knees is the only way I'm going to get lifted back up onto my feet.
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  They need to see that.
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  And I believe that.
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  I believe that Mary probably was a pretty good example of that.
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  Based on this, the small record we have.
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  That is so beautiful.
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  I.
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  I'm so glad you.
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  You brought that out.
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  Let's skip to the story of the wedding.
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  And, yeah, this is a beautiful story.
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  And it's right before Jesus.
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  Well, we believe it's right before Jesus launches into his ministry.
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  It was before he was supposed to be doing miracles and stuff like that.
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  Right.
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  And so it sounds like Mary was in charge of part of this wedding.
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  And of course, they ran out of wine, which was awful.
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  Shouldn't happen at a wedding.
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  And Mary panicking probably was like, dear God, how do I solve this?
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  You know?
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  And I'm sure maybe the thought came, who do you have with you there that can help you?
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  And.
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  And I love this story.
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  If you want to follow along, we're in John, chapter two.
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  And Jesus was.
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  So Jesus had already called his disciples.
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  They were with him at the wedding here.
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  And Mary calls Jesus and.
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  And Jesus said unto her in verse four, woman, what have I to do with thee?
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  Mine hours not yet come.
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  Basically, he's saying, what do you want me to do?
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  And I love, love Mary's response here in the scriptures, so simple, so powerful, and yet she knows who he is.
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  She knows what he can do.
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  He says his mother saith unto the servants.
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  Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
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  Whatever.
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  Don't you think that's such a huge lesson in empowering our children?
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  Oh, yes.
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  Like to trust enough to say, he's got this.
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  That's.
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  That's.
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  That's something that is really awesome to me to be able to look and say, he's got this.
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  Yeah.
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  And delegate.
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  You know, it's sometimes as moms, I don't know about you, but we can always do things quickly and more efficiently than our kids, especially when they lollygag and don't want to do their Chores.
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  And there's times when I really feel like pulling my hair out.
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  Sometimes I'm just like, oh, for the love of all that is holy.
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  Just with the dishes, you know, you've been delaying for three hours now and, you know, would it be easier for me to do them?
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  Yes.
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  It's going to take me five minutes or less.
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  You know what I mean?
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  I'm like, oh, but I love that she knew what Jesus was capable of, and she also knew of his divinity.
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  She knew that whatever he touched, he could fix, he could heal.
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  And I love that she knew her Son and she believed in him.
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  So, so good.
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  I love it, too.
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  And I.
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  But I do think sometimes we lose sight of the fact that while our children are not the Son of God or the daughter of God directly, like we talk about Jesus, they're divine, too.
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  And if we've taught them to.
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  To sit with the Lord and to talk to the Lord and to hear the voice of the Lord and to have the Lord with them, then they have the power, just like we do, to go ahead and reach
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  up and find out what his will is and then do it.
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  And I think we don't.
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  I don't think we give them quite enough empower, empowering in that way.
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  And Mary, Mary did.
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  She just was like, what?
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  He.
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  Whatever he says, do it.
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  And she just trusted it would be okay.
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  Or maybe she didn't trust.
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  I don't know.
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  Maybe she was like, just do what.
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  She says, please, Jesus.
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  I don't know.
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  Make an exception.
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  I'm your mother.
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  I don't know.
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  Like, maybe.
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  Maybe she wasn't quite sure what he could really do, but maybe she trusted that he could and so she just gave it to him.
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  Yeah, I don't know, which is an interesting thought as well.
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  But I also love this, that when.
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  When we allow others to step up and step into leaning on God, miracles can happen like water turning to wine.
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  Now, obviously, I don't think I'm going to have that miracle in my life, but I have seen miracles in my life.
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  I've seen in the lives of my children.
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  And knowing that God can work miracles and trusting that he can work miracles, not knowing what the miracle will be.
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  Right.
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  You know, and that's what.
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  That's what I think we see that kind of faith in Mary right here.
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  I know Jesus can do it.
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  Whatever he does, whatever he says, do it right, and everything will work out the way it's supposed to.
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  Everything.
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  I don't know how it's going to work out, but Jesus but it'll all work out.
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  It'll all work out.
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  And later, as they go through the story of how the water turns to wine and everything, they talk about the water pots.
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  And I.
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  I have a lot of notes in my scriptures because I like to look at myself as the water pot.
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  And so I look at the water pot, and they filled an ordinary water pot with living water.
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  And that's when the miracle happens, and I become the miracle just because I, like Mary said, whatever he says that I will do.
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  And so as I do that, then I change and I become the miracle, which is, I think, the biggest miracle of all, because the elements of the earth obey humans, not so much.
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  We kind of.
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  We kind of struggle and so changing.
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  And I think I've even mentioned this before because it's really.
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  That truly is the miracle to me, is changing hearts without taking away free will.
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  That is a real miracle.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I recorded a podcast episode with a friend just this past week, and she's launching a podcast about miracles.
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  And as I prayed about what I should share, I.
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  I felt like I should share about what happens when the miracle you pray for doesn't happen.
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  Maybe you don't get the miracle you want, but you get the miracle you need.
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  And I share that story, you know, of.
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  Of me wanting my children to be healed from autism, but getting the miracle of God instead, changing my heart and soul to heal from grief.
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  That this was a different life than I expected.
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  But coming to lean on him and trust in him, that was the miracle I needed.
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  I needed to know that I could lean on Jesus no matter what, and I'm thankful.
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  That's the miracle.
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  Well, so now look at that and take Mary and go.
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  Okay, what was the miracle?
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  Mary wanted her son to be crucified.
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  No, but what was the miracle?
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  Mary needed her son to be crucified and resurrected so that she could be resurrected.
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  Yeah.
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  Did she?
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  Was that what she wanted?
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  No.
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  But was that what she needed?
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  Yes.
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  And then.
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  And if you look at the big picture as God can see it as best we can, then you get to see what I really.
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  What was really in my best interest versus what I thought I wanted.
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  Oh, that is so, so good.
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  Since you've gone ahead to the crucifixion, that was one other story where we see so beautifully Mary's grief at this time.
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  I mean, I can't even imagine how she must have felt kneeling at the cross, watching this son of whom she saw so many, from whom she saw so many miracles.
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  She'd seen Angels, she's seen miracles by her son.
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  And here she knew he had brought people back to life.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, yes, right.
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  And yet here he was suffering and dying, and, oh, the grief on her poor heart at this time.
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  And yet I love that even in Jesus's moment of greatest suffering, he remembered his mother.
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  And he looked down and saw her and looked on her with love and compassion and care.
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  And it says in verse 25, now, there stood by the cross, Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Cleophas and Mary Magdalene, where when Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciples standing by whom
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  he loved.
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  So he's talking about John.
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  He saith unto his mother, woman, behold thy son.
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  And then saith he to the disciple, behold thy mother.
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  And from that hour, that disciple took her into his own home.
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  And so he's.
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  He's loving, he's seeing her.
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  He knows that one of his responsibilities as the oldest son is to watch and care for his mother.
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  That's interesting to think about, though, because Jesus had siblings.
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  And I've never really put.
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  I never really pondered on that before, but he had siblings, and yet he turns her over to John.
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  Yeah, And I think the reason he did that, because I pondered this, I think the reason he put her in the care of John is when John, when Jesus asked his disciples what they wanted, most of them wanted
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  to come with him as quickly as they could and be with him.
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  But John wanted to stay and do God's work on the earth, and so he stayed.
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  And so Jesus knew that all of his other apostles were going to die, but John was going to stay.
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  And so John could stay and take care of his mom.
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  But what do you think happened to his actual siblings?
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  Oh, well, you know what I mean.
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  Because where are they?
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  Yeah, well, we know several of them were his disciples, and there was persecution going on, and so I'd have to research it.
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  I haven't.
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  That's an interesting thought, though, that I've never really thought about.
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  But now, because I've moved away from my family, I feel that feeling of, wait.
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  I'm usually the one who's.
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  Who's going to be there if I'm not.
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  And even just last weekend, last week, my dad was in the hospital, and I had just left Utah.
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  I had only been home for like a day or two.
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  And he went to the hospital, and my mom, I knew was there.
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  And all I kept thinking was, dang, who's going to be there?
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  That would be me.
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  I would be the one.
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  But it was good.
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  I have siblings.
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  They did good.
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  We.
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  There's six of us left in Utah, so they did good.
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  And.
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  But.
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  But there's an ache thinking, ah, who's going to be there?
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  Who's going to take care of things?
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  Yeah.
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  And I don't know.
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  There's just so much we can just.
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  If you just looked at those three verses in John right there, you could learn so much about Jesus and Mary's relationship.
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  So much.
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  Because she also obeyed and went with John.
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  Yeah, that's true.
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  She trusted.
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  She trusted her son.
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  It went against tradition, but she trusted.
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  Because that's why I said, where were his siblings?
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  That.
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  That's who should have taken over.
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  His actual siblings, his blood.
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  But instead he went.
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  She went with John.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Jesus knew John would take care of her, and he did.
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  Right.
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  And Mary trusted Jesus, that that was what was to be done.
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  And I think it goes again to the empowering a little bit.
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  Let her.
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  We got to let our kids grow up and trust them.
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  I take counsel for my children all the time in my family.
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  I don't.
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  They're adults, and we don't have a hierarchy so much anymore.
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  It's.
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  They've.
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  Their frontal cortexes are all developed, so.
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  And I've taught them the best I could, how to hear the voice of the Lord.
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  So I counsel with my kids all the time.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well.
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  And it's also trusting that God is going to get them through whatever their journey looks like, whether they're following God's path or whether they're on a prodigal journey, that God still sees them and will be with them through
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  ever what.
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  Through whatever their journey looks like, you know.
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  And so was this what Mary anticipated Jesus's life would look like?
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  Maybe she knew.
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  I'm sure she did, looking at the Passover and stuff like that, that this was all a symbol of Christ, but how hard it was to live through it.
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  But then how glorious.
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  The resurrection.
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  Right.
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  That, that.
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  And so I think that's.
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  That's one of the things I love from the story of Jesus, son of Mary, is from her he got his mortality, his ability to die.
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  And he obviously, being God, had the capacity that no other child of God on this earth has ever had.
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  And that is the ability to rise again.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, when we were studying this, I actually, I had the impression that she's what gave him the mortality.
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  And I have given my kids a lot of my mortality, for better or for worse.
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  And he didn't resent her or hate her or it Wasn't a bad thing.
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  He didn't treat her like it was a bad thing, that he got his mortality from her.
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  That is, that is something that bears pondering, doesn't it?
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  I've been thinking about it a lot, so I don't know.
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  But I do think it's a beautiful thing that mother and son could come together and figure out how to trust one another pretty implicitly.
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  Yeah, it's, it's a beautiful story.
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  And Jesus loved his mother so much.
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  He loved him so much.
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  So much.
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  Right.
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  But they both loved God oh, so much.
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  And that's where, that's where relationships are built.
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  You, you can't love fully each other until you love God fully.
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  It's just where they're built.
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  Yeah, that brings it.
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  That ties in that first rate commandment.
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  You know, in the very beginning of her story, the Lord was with her.
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  Yeah, it does.
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  It does.
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  Oh, that is beautiful and powerful, Amy.
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  That is a perfect tying up of this episode.
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  They loved God more and they said, that's my takeaway.
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  Oh, love that so much.
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  My goodness.
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  I think what I love about Mary also is her willingness to submit to all things.
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  And Jesus got that from her as well.
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  And I have had to learn that the hard way because I didn't want to submit to all things that my life has brought me through.
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  But in the end, I got the miracle I needed and that was the softening of my heart and helping me look to God for a more eternal perspective, learning to trust him more than I trust my heart and
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  dreams, because whatever he wants is ultimately for my good.
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  So.
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  Well, guys, thank you for joining us today.
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  We hope that you have a happy and blessed Mother's Day, both remembering your mothers, whether they were perfect or very imperfect.
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  Probably more likely that, but also learning, taking from the story of Jesus and his mother some of the lessons that we can apply that we loved those around us, but we love God more and in the end, that's
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  what matters most.
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  God bless and stay tuned for next week where we'll talk about more of Jesus's beautiful titles and how we can come to understand him better and bring him into our life more.
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