The Woman God Chose

While waiting to check out at the grocery store recently, a publication caught my eye. It was a reissue of LIFE magazine on Mary, the mother of Jesus. I began to peruse it, more out of curiosity than interest, until I read the introduction: “Whoever she [Mary] was, she must have been substantial, smart and strong. She must have been a fine mother.”1 True. But she was also much more. Of all