Dear brothers and sisters! Ten wild ducks were swimming in one lake. Suddenly, the carcass of a large fish floated toward them. The ducks were so hungry that they were happy even with the corpse and started munching on it. They kept pushing one duck away from each other. She was starving. Then she remembered that she also had wings. She was afraid to fly above the surface, into the unknown. But hunger forced her, and she flew above the lake’s surface. A large horizon appeared before her. From above, she saw small fish swimming under the surface. She flew lower, caught small fresh fish, and flew over the lake again. She noticed beautiful strawberries on the shore; she also spotted juicy cherries. After eating her fill, she returned to the lake to the nine ducks. They were still enjoying the dead fish and were surprised that this one was somehow not fit to eat. They started to offer her, but she didn’t want it. She just wondered and said to herself, how can they eat it? It’s too bad they didn’t fly off into the unknown with me, she thought, to find better food. How can they taste this?’
And this is what God wants from us, so we are not afraid to soar into the unknown. It is courage that is built on faith in God. And God puts a courageous person of faith at our disposal, the Virgin Mary.
It was also tricky for her to take a step, as it were, into the unknown when she answered the angel: “Let it be done to me according to your word,” when she received Jesus in the form of the fruit of her life. She goes to Elizabeth in faith but does not know what awaits her there. But it goes. The Virgin Mary discovered a spiritual dimension in herself. This dimension gave her, as it were, wings, and she was able to soar in faith into the unknown, and we witnessed the fruits of her faith. It is not only the Savior in the form of Jesus but also the very fact with her body that is taken from earth to heaven.
It is also thanks to the fact that Mária discovered wings in herself and became, as it were, an angel going into the unknown. He teaches those who do not want to be slaves to their own lives. He teaches those who do not want to bite a dead fish based on tradition. Mary teaches us faith so that we discover the wings of an angel in ourselves and are not afraid to fly with her into the unknown. Because a person is not just a bunch of psychological phenomena but is mainly a spiritual being, about which the holy writer says: “Man is only a little smaller than the angels.” Therefore, let’s try to discover an angel with wings in ourselves.
I read a lovely story about a little girl who was small and pale. Mom used to take him for a walk. The people they met looked at the little girl strangely. Once, the little girl asked her mother: “Why are those people looking at me like that?” “Because you have nice clothes,” answered the mother. But Mom died. After a year, the father married another, more beautiful woman. She didn’t take the little girl for walks. “Why?” a little girl once asked a new mother. “Look at you,” says her stepmother, “what would people think if they saw me with you, such a hunchback. Humpbacked children should sit at home.” When she left, the little girl moved her chair under the mirror and noticed her big hump. “What does the hump hide? What is in it?” it asked. When winter came, the little girl died. An angel came to her grave, knocked on it like a door, and a little girl ran out of it. The angel tells him: “Come with me to my mother. The little girl replied: “Can even hunchbacked children go to heaven?” The angel stroked his hump; it fell off like a shell and beautiful wings appeared in its place. And the little girl flew straight to heaven with the angel.
Nice story. Let’s try to make it accurate. Let’s discover the angel in ourselves and try to fly with Maria into the unknown so that, like the duck, we can find something more beautiful than a dead fish.
