Elizabeth and Mary are quite the pair. After years and years of praying for a child, after becoming used to not having a child, and after getting to the age where giving birth to a child was not a good idea, Elizabeth gets pregnant with a baby.

Sometimes, as with Elizabeth, God moves too slow. Some of us have been praying for so long for something to happen that we might be thinking it may never happen. Obviously, we can’t make it happen, because if we could, we would have made it happen already. Clearly, we are not in control.

Mary too hoped for a child someday, when it would be appropriate, but not before she was married. Not while she was still a virgin.

So, we meet two women who are pregnant. One of them is too old and the other is too young.