{"id":731,"date":"2013-12-15T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=731"},"modified":"2015-01-05T01:54:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T07:54:54","slug":"eat-drink-and-be-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Eat, drink and… be Mary!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the time of year when we are celebrating, we are throwing parties, we are attending parties and we are being “MERRY”!<\/p>\n

A few years ago we threw a Christmas party and our invitation read, “Come, eat, drink and be merry!” \u00a0I was thinking about this today because we wanted to throw a party this year, but I didn’t get around to planning it. \u00a0When I thought about the invitation we sent a few years ago, I paused on\u00a0the phrase “be merry”, in my head I changed it to, “be Mary”.<\/p>\n

Did “be merry” originate from “be Mary”?<\/p>\n

Rather than research the actual origins of this phrase, tonight I would rather come up with my own story!<\/p>\n

Maybe years ago when friends were toasting and celebrating together during the Christmas season, they really did use the phrase, “Eat, drink and be Mary!”, with the intention and the prayer that they themselves as well as their friends would live as Mary did, full of faith in God and consumed with love for Jesus!<\/p>\n

I pray during this Christmas season and the year to come, that we will all “be Mary”, living like Mary full of faith in God and consumed with love for Jesus!<\/p>\n

Be Mary, my friends, be Mary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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