“When she first sensed the urgency of God’s Word inside her, the longing of God to be here, in this body, ‘in my acts and words’, the first feeling was a mixture of fear and exhilaration. God had begun to exist in her belly, not through the work of any man, but out of a kind of meeting of her longing and God’s. How can anyone carry God, bring God to birth in the world? How can you carry the cup without spilling it? But what if the cup is no fragile container but a deep well that can never run dry? Then you know it isn’t just your resource, your decision, but God’s insistent generosity, carrying you as you carry God.”
