Standing on top of the first milk crate is easy. After 5 you start to wobble. Around 10 you realize that #1 wasn't exactly firmly and evenly planted on the ground, and the higher you get, the more you wish you had started off better.
Then you fall, which is part of the fun.
In real life, however, falling is never good or fun. Mary never fell. In today's Gospel we see how she placed her first crates.
"She was greatly troubled" that the angel should say she was FULL of Grace.
"Behold, I am the handmade of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word." She accepted fully God's plan for her life, without understanding what that would mean.
Humility was her first crate - that is, she relied entirely on God, trusting that he knew best.
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