Assumption

The whole creation is striving for/ waiting for its fruition in union with God.

Mary, one among the creation, one among us,
waited, brought its fruit, found its completion.
It was the work of God.

It was fitting that she was born immaculate,
God may have prepared many generations to break the clutches of sin,
that gracefulness was all that was there when she was born.
It is to be contemplated that she preserved it in a graceless world,
a world fought for power, wealth, and transcendence.
To spend grace in a graceless world is harder than death,
so, a thousand swords may have pierced her heart.
Yet she held her heart full of grace.

In life, or in death, when was she not in grace?
She was always in heaven.
Grace was there in her, life was there in her, God was there in her,
all the while she was a wife, she was a mother, she worked, sweated, wept.

If assumption is seen as a liberation from material world, it collapses the whole meaning of incarnation and redemption.
Her life itself celebrated the liberty in bringing forth the Messiah.

Mary seen as the type of the church,
seeing what was granted to her,
are we assumed to grace to be grace-bearer in a world whose powers become self destructive?