I’m glad I’m not your mother, child. Seems to me there’s quite a bit of a young adult, “My parents aren’t the boss of me now, especially not my mother” in the tone of your posts. . .
I sense a bit of entitlement in your post. What it seems you are saying is “if you don’t agree with me you are an insolent child with authority issues”. Attacks of this nature don’t make you seem “sophisticated”, nor do they help your case, they simply make you seem like a condescending elitist.
That even if she were, that others MUST be ‘above her’ because according to you, she really didn’t do all that much.
Look at the life of Paul, then look at Mary and tell me she did more.
For perspective: Imagine two young brothers and their Father. One brother works hard to provide for the family everyday; He is always out either working the fields or his job through harsh environments, enduring physical stress in the process. The people whom he works amongst all hate this man’s Father, yet this brother testifies and defends him whilst also working, enduring both physical and emotional torment.
The second brother loves his Father dearly, “more” than the first brother–but does no work. While this brother never dishonors his Fathers, he never directly honors him either. Whilst the first brother is working hard and sacrificing himself for the household, the second brother lives their lives humbly–but idly. This brother works no land, testifies–but less frequently so, and doesn’t suffer a stripe from the harsh external community.
At the end of their adolescence, the Father calls both of them to give them their lifetime rewards (we’ll use money for this example). Brother 1, who worked the hardest–is given 250,000 in cash, yet Brother 2, who
only loved and did little else–receives 1,000,000,000,000, in addition to the keys of the household in the event of the Father’s death.
How is that fair? An internal passion shouldn’t at all compare to the internal
and external suffering that the true workers of the household had to endure.
If the most committed on Earth is guaranteed to be below Mary, then why not just do the least possible to get saved? Why try hard to please the Lord beyond what is required if you’re destined to inferiority? Honorable mention? 3rd place price (not counting the true champions who probably invariably fill those spots as well)? What are we but mere decorations to the Queen, in Heaven? We are as the beams to the center of a Christmas light; glimmering and present, but nonessential. If Mary, alone–is the ocean, we are each but a grain of sand. Even if we
aren’t equal, why make the difference
that ridiculously large?
God Bless.
