"Be it done to me according to your word."

Since August 15 the Feast of the Assumption of Mary – which just means she is in heaven, body and soul, I have been pondering how she saw herself simply as the servant of the Lord. That is how my mother in the hiddeness of her life saw herself too. So too this is our call. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of God.
“ a feather on the breath of God” ( Hildegarde of Bingen.).
The life of Mary surely looked ordinary, lowly, absolutely unremarkable from the point of view of our culture which says you must be rich and famous and own many things if expect to matter at all. You must make a name for yourself.

Not so Mary. She just went about the ordinary business of caring for Joseph and Jesus, and later Jesus and his followers. I don’t imagine she was popular either, because did she not say:
He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
He has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
d lifted up the lowly;
53he has filled the hungry with good things,
and sent the rich away empty. (Luke 1:51-53)
And we see her there at the foot of the Cross. And there with the believing community as they waited for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.(Acts 2)

So waiting was and is part of ordinary human life. In the army we used to say “hurry up and wait”. Because we would rush to be on time and then wait an hour for whatever it was we had to be on time for.
We know Mary prayed. We have one of her prayers. So too, we pray and we wait. Our Christian Meditation or Centering is a prayer in which we simply sit in the Presence of God and await His work of love in our inmost being.
We too say Look upon me Lord. I am your servant, Be it done to me according to your Word. As John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote: I do not ask the distant shore to see, one step enough for me. Lead Thou me on.

It is also a work for the world, because there is one more person letting God’s love into the world. Let us meditate often. This is a way to wait on God with open heart and open mind..