Mary's Story: A Birth Story (Part 1)

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Welcome to this special episode of the Motherhood
Metamorphosis.  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 3 part 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 Part 1 of Mary’s Story
By Brittany Meng

(If you just can't wait for the next installment, you can read
the rest of the story here)

Have a happy holiday, everyone! Regular episodes will resume on
January 3, 2022


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