What do I think of Mary as a mother?
Well, it depends on "which" Mary you mean - there are two very different representations of Mary in the NT.
1) There's the Mary who was visited by angels and told her child was God, and who sang the Magnificat (sp?).
2) And then there's the Mary who scolded her 12-year old son for running away (to the Temple) who had no idea what her boy was talking about when he said he had to be about his father's work. This was the same Mary who was estranged from Jesus as an adult and thought he was nuts (the story about his mother & siblings standing outside waiting for him whom he denounced in favor of chosen family, and who wanted to put him away in the ancient day equivalent of an insane asylum).
Which Mary? She is too vague for me to make any presumptions about her feelings or thoughts on her pregnancy and parenting, but undoubtedly Jesus was nursed, and was part of an extended family during his childhood, with may aunts and uncles and whatnot (the story of Anna, Mary's mother; Elizabeth, Mary's aunt etc).
I personally love the art I have seen of Mary nursing Jesus. When I was in Paris at the Louvre, I tried to take pictures of them! My friends found them distasteful, LOL, even though they are famous works of art!
Well, it depends on "which" Mary you mean - there are two very different representations of Mary in the NT.
1) There's the Mary who was visited by angels and told her child was God, and who sang the Magnificat (sp?).
2) And then there's the Mary who scolded her 12-year old son for running away (to the Temple) who had no idea what her boy was talking about when he said he had to be about his father's work. This was the same Mary who was estranged from Jesus as an adult and thought he was nuts (the story about his mother & siblings standing outside waiting for him whom he denounced in favor of chosen family, and who wanted to put him away in the ancient day equivalent of an insane asylum).
Which Mary? She is too vague for me to make any presumptions about her feelings or thoughts on her pregnancy and parenting, but undoubtedly Jesus was nursed, and was part of an extended family during his childhood, with may aunts and uncles and whatnot (the story of Anna, Mary's mother; Elizabeth, Mary's aunt etc).
I personally love the art I have seen of Mary nursing Jesus. When I was in Paris at the Louvre, I tried to take pictures of them! My friends found them distasteful, LOL, even though they are famous works of art!
