“I hope there's a way we
can each figure out how to be an Elizabeth to a Mary in our lives, and vice
versa. That we can step forward with someone else into that uncertain space of
a transforming life mixed with blessing and challenge, to stand alongside
another person's journey, trusting that in that act we too are somehow
fortified and encouraged on our own walk.”—
Nigerian-American writer
and speaker Enuma Okoro, on the “Visitation” narrative in the
Gospels’ Advent story, in “The Art of Life: A Season for Solidarity,” The
Financial Times, Dec. 11-12, 2021
The image accompanying this post is Visitation
(c. 1517), a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael (1483-1520)
that now hangs in the Museo de Prado in Madrid, Spain.
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