1790

"I consented to your conception, Jesus, because I was a child of thirteen, and had only in the past month begun to bleed as a woman, and who was I to argue with an angel especially a high archangel such as Gabriel? But it was still a violation, a wonderful and so sacred and so beautiful moment, but I had no agency. I was alone, still a child, and then there was my betrothal to your earthly stepfather here, Joseph, and how only through the angel's intervention could he be persuaded that I had not cheated with some randy boy in the village. Jesus, my Blessed Son, did you know how vulnerable, how frightened I was? Do you really know, can you really understand what it is really like to be woman?" "You are teaching me, Mother. You have been teaching me these last two thousand years. And yes, even though I am God, I always have things to learn, and that is how I can appreciate your humanity, because I have also made it my humanity...