Do Whatever He Tells You

Our Blessed Mother is mentioned only a few precious times in the Bible and very few words of hers are recorded, but the ones that are recorded in today's gospel are perhaps the most important.

Do whatever He tells you.

Jesus tells his mother that His time had not yet come. Yet, in listening to the words spoken by his mother, He is obedient to his Father in heaven.

Do whatever He tells you.

And so we read the last words of Mary which are recorded in scripture. This woman who means so much to us. Who gave so much to us.

I have wondered many times why the writers of the gospels have so little written about the most important person in Jesus' life. How helpful it would be as a wife and mother to know how Mary spent her days. I have longed to know more and have wrestled with this issue many times.

Perhaps St. John knew that those last words that he recorded were the most important.

Do whatever He tells you.

Mary, the most humble, obedient Servant of God points us to her son. How simple, and yet how profound. In listening to the words spoken by Mary, may we be obedient to our Father in heaven.