Advent Poem: After Gabriel's Visit

How strange those months must have been
For Mary and her family.
No wonder she went to visit Elizabeth;
Who else could sympathize?

And then the news.

She and Joseph would have to travel . . .
To Bethlehem.
And then.

Did she know then would be then?
And when did she first feel
Life within?

Life which chose to be contained.

How strange that Grace
Would choose to come in such a common form
Yet
In such an uncommon manner.