A Gift is Fully a Gift Only if Well Received (II)

The richer and nobler the gift, the better equipped to receive it the recipient should be.

If the Father wanted to give His Son to the world, He couldn't take the risk that His son be half-way welcome, even three-quarters of the way. For the Incarnation to be whole, nothing in the Son could be foreign to humankind. Jesus couldn't be an unwanted child, even as little unwanted as could be.

Now, after the tragic Fall, no human being was capable of total love and total freedom. How then could God make the gift of His Son to the world? The solution could only come from Him, and not from man. God worked on man through a long preparation: a promise to plant in the heart of each member of mankind after the Fall an ever renewed hope; the choice of a man, Abraham, and of a people; a long history with its cost of weightiness and dashing advances; a lineage, a family...

And finally a young girl, "younger than sin," re-instituted, from her conception, in the grace of the origins, "fully pardoned" (clothed with grace), and because of that, able to fully welcome any grace that would fall on our earth. So that nothing may be lost of God's gift, nothing refused, misunderstood or wasted.