Scripture Text: Luke 1:39-56

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship Bewilderment is true comprehension.

Michael Card, Luke: The Gospel of Amazement They were, all of them, quite simply amazed. Zechariah’s friends, the shepherds, all who heard the shepherds, Joseph and Mary, the people in his hometown of Nazareth, those in Capernaum, those who heard the boy Jesus in the temple, the disciples, the parents of the girl who had died, even the Pharisees: all were amazed, astonished, in awe and afraid. Three decades later, as Luke inte ...