Mary's Story: A Birth Story (Parts 1, 2, 3)

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Mary's Story: A Birth Story is a special Christmas series on the
Motherhood Metamorphosis. I’m your host, Brittany Meng, and this
week, I’ll be reading my fictional account of what I think the
first Christmas may have looked like, if Mary had written down
her birth story for all of us to read. 


 I wrote this story in 2017, though it had been in my mind
since my youngest son Elijah was born in 2014. His birthday is
just 2 days before Christmas and while I was pregnant with him, I
just couldn’t help but think about Mary, about what it must have
been like for her—as a woman—to give birth to Jesus. What did she
feel? How did the birth go? Did she really give birth in a dark,
cold barn, surrounded by animal with only Joseph to assist? 


 This is a work of fiction but it is based on the Biblical
accounts in Mathew and Luke, as well as a lot of research I did
on ancient middle eastern culture and hospitality practices and
really came up with a different narrative than the one that we’re
so used to seeing in our modern Christmas culture where Mary is
this pristine, clean, unruffled person dressed in blue and white,
with no hint of a belly with her arms crossed over her chest
kneeling beside a wooden manger. 


 So this is quite a different Christmas story than you may
have heard before, or that has been portrayed in our culture
through paintings, Christmas songs, and nativity scenes. But I
hope that this un-sanitized, real, and authentic birth story will
inspire you to view not only Mary in a new way, but your own
motherhood as well as you move through your own metamorphosis and
spiritual journey. 


 So welcome to Mary’s Story
By Brittany Meng

Have a happy holiday, everyone! Regular episodes will resume on
January 2, 2023


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