Mary in Our Hearts

"'I am the Lord's servant,' Mary answered. 'May your word to me be fulfilled.'" - Luke 1:38

I pray that we find it in our hearts
to have faith like Mary.

For Mary didn't understand
how it could be

that she,
still a virgin,
could bear a child.

Yet she trusted and accepted
the call proclaimed by Gabriel
because she believed it was
God's will for her.

Mary must have known
that she,
pregnant and unwed,
a mother before a wife,
would be chastised,

yet she obliged
anyway.

She has become
a paragon of faith to follow,
inspiring me to be fearless
in acting according to God's will,

trusting that the path
set before me
is the right one

and that the glory
awaiting my arrival
miles in the distance
is well-worth hiking over
the rugged terrain.

May we all
have a faith like Mary's.

May we be willing
to answer
God's call
without
fretting over
what everybody else thinks
and despite not understanding
the motives
or inner workings
of His mighty deeds.

Margaret Moore is a 2020 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Fairfield University with a BA in English/Creative Writing. She is currently an MFA candidate with a dual concentration in nonfiction and poetry in Fairfield University's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. This year, Margaret holds a graduate assistantship through Fairfield University in which she interns as an editor at Woodhall Press and serves as Managing Editor of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. She also works as an ambassador for PRC-Saltillo. Her writing has appeared in Independent Catholic News, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Brevity's Nonfiction Blog, Two Drops of Ink: A Literary Blog, Positive Writer, and How We Are among other publications. Margaret can be found on Twitter with the handle @mooreofawriter.