Extraordinary Interruption - Mary

The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her,
“Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God will ever fail.”
Luke 1:27b-37


Another ordinary day
in the life of an ordinary person,
living in an ordinary town,
doing the ordinary things
to keep our family home tidy.

The bread is baked,
the stew slowly simmering,
the floor swept.
All is well in my ordinary world.

Then suddenly everything changed.
One moment I was alone,
the next I wasn't
and I really don't know how it happened

The door had not opened, yet this being stood before me.
"Greetings, you who are highly favoured."
It was a quaint turn of phrase, to be sure
I couldn't move.
I coun't speak.
Perhaps he has the wrong person and should have visited next door instead
"Do not be afraid, Mary."
Oh dear, I thought. It is me he is looking for.
Now if he had said
"Do not be afraid, Anna," I could have sent him on his way.
But no, it was "Do not be afraid, Mary."
and I knew the being really had come to see me.

It is hard not to be afraid, when something unexpected miraculously appears in your home.
He held my gaze, I couldn't look away.
And that was before he dropped the bombshell
God has chosen me, ordinary Mary,
betrothed to ordinary Joseph,
from ordinary Nazareth,
to give birth to His extraordinary Son.
and what is more, God has already chosen his name, Jesus.
Mindblowing!
I had a few questions...Like, how?
Joseph and I may be betrothed, but that is all!
As you may expect the being had an answer for that,

The Holy Spirit will make all this happen.
He even knew about Elizabeth's miraculous pregnancy!
Just one problem, I now have to breeak that to Joe.
I notice the being left that to me!