Christ is pointing to the Kingdom of God as the Heavenly Banquet where no one will define their own value by comparing themselves to others. Where the invitation to the feast has no strings attached.
All throughout the scriptural story of redemption there have been easy answers; wide gates offered to people of faith as they follow the Lord. Just say and do the right things and all will be well. But this has never been the road God has called us on
Through grace, Mary knew how to wait on God. She trusted that, in the end, God always lifts up the lowly. Mary died so at peace with God, with others and herself that,
we believe, she tasted not death.
I hope to come within 100 miles of that kind of peace.
