Walking for Peace Through Alabama

What was God knowing
before breathing
love into being?

What was God knowing
of compassion and mercy
that humanity rejected?

What was God knowing
that compelled prophets
to prophesy the inconceivable?

What was God knowing
to include a woman
in this significant experience
of salvation history?

What was God knowing
for God to choose her
in spite of man’s obstacles?

What was God knowing
to rely on her faithfulness
beyond honor and shame?

What was God knowing
of her formation on and
by the margins?

What was God knowing
to send God’s messenger
to visit her unannounced?

What was God knowing
to invite this young woman
to fully participate in the Incarnation?

What was God knowing
to ask this woman named Maryam
to literally mother the Word of God?

What was God knowing
to depend on her ability
to make this unorthodox decision?

What was God knowing
of her strength — emotional, physical, and psychological
— to bear this most unusual pregnancy?

What was God knowing
of her person
to have confidence in her brave fiat?

What was God knowing
of her integrity
as a woman of her word?

What was God knowing
to trust her embracing the known and unknown
of this unconventional path?

What was God knowing
of her capacity to grow
in knowledge, understanding, and wisdom?

What was God knowing
to see Maryam’s spirit expanding
to be the Mother of the Universe?

What was God knowing then
that God is knowing now?

What is God knowing now
of the spirit of synodality working
in and through the hearts and minds
of Maryam’s children?

What is God knowing now
of God’s Word calling forth vocations
in the hearts and minds
of Maryam’s daughters?


Have you experienced growth in your knowing of Divine Wisdom? What shifted for you?

(This was written by Leslye Colvin and first published by Pax Christi USA in Seeking Wisdom’s Light, their Advent and Christmas reflection guide for 2024.)