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Happy Mother’s Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n I wanted to talk about two important biblical mothers today – Mary and Elizabeth! Mary, the mother who was impregnated by the Holy Spirit and gave birth to the baby Jesus. Mary’s kinswoman, Elizabeth, gave birth to John the Baptist. Elizabeth had been barren prior to being impregnated with John. Both Elizabeth and Zechariah were advanced in years, and they didn’t believe they’d have children. Zechariah even questioned the validity of the news from Gabriel regarding his future son’s birth. Gabriel made Zechariah mute when he questioned Gabriel’s message.<\/p>\n When Mary went to visit Elizabeth to tell about Elizabeth about her pregnancy, Elizabeth felt John The Baptist leap in her womb! Wow! Mary stayed and visited with Elizabeth for three months:<\/p>\n 39\u00a0<\/sup>At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40\u00a0<\/sup>where she entered Zechariah\u2019s home and greeted Elizabeth. 41\u00a0<\/sup>When Elizabeth heard Mary\u2019s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42\u00a0<\/sup>In a loud voice she exclaimed: \u201cBlessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! 43\u00a0<\/sup>But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44\u00a0<\/sup>As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45\u00a0<\/sup>Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n 56\u00a0<\/sup>Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.<\/em><\/p>\n It’s just so amazing! Both of these highly important mothers visited for three months. What do you think they discussed during this three-month visit?<\/strong><\/p>\n I imagine that they discussed the upcoming birth of their sons. John probably leaped with joy in Elizabeth’s womb several times. Mary probably placed her hand on Elizabeth’s belly, feeling the baby kick. I’d imagine this was a time of laughter and joyful tears for both of these amazing mothers!<\/p>\n Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Mother’s Day! I wanted to talk about two important biblical mothers today – Mary and Elizabeth! Mary, the mother who was impregnated by the Holy Spirit and gave birth to the baby Jesus. Mary’s kinswoman, Elizabeth, gave birth to John the Baptist. Elizabeth had been barren prior to being impregnated with John. Both Elizabeth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-Dz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nLuke 1:39-45, 56<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Mary Visits Elizabeth<\/em><\/h3>\n