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I think it'll be fun.
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He's a bit bigger now,
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so it'll be his second Christmas.
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But I had this moment,
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I think last Advent,
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I was thinking about how
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much your life changes when you're a mum.
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And I think particularly I was struggling with like,
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my prayer life and like,
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I just had this moment of like, oh,
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like my prayer is not invalid
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just because it looks different,
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like this time,
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this time isn't invalid
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just because it looks different,
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and that maybe God is showing me more of Himself.
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Especially, like, yeah, as a baby
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and what it looks like
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that He came to the world as a baby,
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I think I just like,
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I don't know, just realised like,
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oh, I think He wants to help me learn
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more of that through the fact that I have a baby.
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So I guess I'm excited for that.
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And hopefully he won't be
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crazy at Mass,
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but if he is, you know what,
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it is what it is.
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I totally forgot that this
is her first Christmas.
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I’ll probably just be thinking,
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this time last year I was
pregnant with her.
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It'll make me reflect more on,
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the Christmas story and on Mary’s
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position, because I don't feel like I fully
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understood what she was going through until now.
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I think it's difficult to fully understand,
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motherhood until you've
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experienced it.
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I think I will
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notice and empathise with Mary more
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this year for Christmas.
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It's a long journey.
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140 Km.
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I don't know if I could do that.
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In this weather.
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But yeah, that's incredible.
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I can't even imagine,
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is it 140 kilometres?
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I can't even imagine
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how long that is. like driving that would be
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hard enough.
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But she was on a donkey.
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That's crazy.
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But I guess I don't know.
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I guess in thinking about that you,
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I don't know, you do what you need to do
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for your family, I guess.
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You know, and it's not like they were doing that for fun,
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they did it because they had to.
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And I imagine that probably
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it was just a necessity to it.
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And so it's hard but
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you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.
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Yeah, it's incredible the strength that you can find
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when it's something that you
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do for your kids and for your family.
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There is such a vulnerability in
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babies hey, like, especially newborns,
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like, when I see newborns now.
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I can't even remember really what
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Israel was like as a newborn.
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But when you see them, you’re just like,
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oh, man, you can't do anything.
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And that's crazy that God would do that for us,
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to let Himself
come so close to us
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and be almost at our mercy.
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Babies are just an invitation to be loved
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and to be cared for.
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And that God would
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come to us like that so humbly,
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it's so audacious,
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that He would put Himself
at our mercy like that.
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That he would put Himself at the mercy of the world like that
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to come as a baby.
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And babies can really, truly do nothing at all
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but be loved.
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God is loving and pure
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and knocks on your heart to let Him in
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rather barges in, you need to,
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I think we needed to see that
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He came first as an innocent child,
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as a gentle, pure being.
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I think definitely just her,
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her ‘yes’
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is something that I always think about.
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Just always saying yes to the hard things,
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yes to being
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open to God's will
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all the time.
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In her motherhood as well,
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like, I'm sure she was a
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patient mother,
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a very loving mother,
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considering she was sinless.
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Yeah, I think
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I strive to be like her as a mother and to be patient,
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to be loving,
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to be
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a comfort, a guide.
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Just always being open.
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Always being open.
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Beautiful.
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Yeah, that's really beautiful.
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I suppose when things get
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hard or maybe even like mundane
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in the day to day of
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being a mum or just being at home,
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I like to think of,
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I don't know, like the humanity of Mary
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and what that would have looked like for her.
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Like, there's almost like a solidarity to
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I'm sure she had days where she was bored.
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Do you get bored? I don't know.
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You know, like as the mother of God,
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do you ever get bored?
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And I think I like to think of her in that
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and almost, like,
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feel a camaraderie of like,
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oh man, Mary did this,
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you know, like and she wasn't just raising
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like a normal human person,
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she was raising God.
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And there's grace in that,
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and there’s grace in this as well
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and all of the
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all parts of it,
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all of the mundane
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and all of the hard
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and all of the joy as well.
