Religion & Spirituality
It's very interesting to contrast the two "annunciations" we find in the 1st chapter of Luke's Gospel. The announcement of the conception and birth of John the Baptist is made in a very religious context: To a priest who is ministering at the Holy of Holies in the Temple in Jerusalem. Far more surprising and unexpected (and powerful) is the announcement of the conception of God-in-the-flesh, which occurs in a much more ordinary and less overtly religious scenario: To a young woman in Nazareth, a podunk town in "Galilee of the Gentiles". This is a good reminder to us that in Jesus God enters time and space and makes the most ordinary extraordinary. Are we waiting for Him and expecting Him to do that?