I couldn’t let the day go by without honoring the Immaculate Heart of The Blessed Virgin Mary so you shall have two reflections today! In this remembrance, we honor a woman who had a visceral relationship with Jesus, through birth, miracles, death and resurrection. She kept all these things in her heart and let them be.
The Heart of Mary is a sanctuary of tenderness and courage, a heart that learned to trust God in the most bewildering and beautiful of circumstances. Her yes was not naïve; it was brave. It was the yes of a woman who understood that love sometimes asks us to walk into mystery without a map. Her heart teaches us what it means to surrender without losing strength, to open ourselves without losing center.
I recently finished reading Anne Rice’s, Christ the Lord, where we glimpse Mary through a mother’s eyes, watching her son slowly awaken to the truth of who he is. She carries the memory of angelic promises, the weight of divine secrets, and the daily tenderness of raising a child who belongs both to her and to the world. Through her, we see a woman whose life is shaped by holy consent, a willingness to let God’s story unfold even when she cannot see where it leads.
This is the same spirit that echoes through the Beatles’ Let It Be. Not resignation, but a deep, interior trust. A reminder that when we stop resisting what is unfolding, wisdom rises. Light appears. Peace finds us. Mary’s own “let it be done unto me” is the original melody of surrender—a song that has been reverberating through the centuries, inviting us into a gentler, more spacious way of living.
To honor the Immaculate Heart is to honor the woman who held joy and sorrow in the same embrace, who carried both promise and pain without closing herself off. Her heart is a refuge for anyone and a model for me as I learn to trust God in the dark, to say yes when the path is unclear, and search for the courage to let love lead.
Mary shows us that holiness is not about certainty.
It is about trusting the unfolding.
It is about letting God be God.
It is about allowing love to shape our lives from the inside out.
Her Heart whispers to us still:
Let it be.
Let love be.
Let God be.
Smitten With Goodness 