When was the last time you jumped for joy or were so excited that your heart smiled?   Look at Mary and Elizabeth in the painting, you can just see their love jumping out at you! The excitement, the awe, the tenderness and love flow forth from these women. Can you feel it?  What can make you “jump for joy” this Advent/Christmas?  Might it be that you are created in God’s love and surrounded daily in God’s care?  We are loved into being and isn’t it awesome to think that the one thing God asks of us to bring love to life—incarnation– with those we meet on our journey of life?