What Mary was thinking?

OK Feedburner has been playing up so hopefully this won't be delivered as two blogs, dear friends (I try not to blog more than once a week as I don't want to get on your nerves (!) ... but just had to share this wonderful passage I just found by A Plass on his blogspage; it moved me so much.

Today I do not want to be a branch of the Vine
Or a part of the body
Or a sheep in the flock of the Good Shepherd
Or the bride of Christ
Or a disciple
Or a servant
Or an inheritor of the kingdom
Or a citizen of heaven
Or visited by angels
Or greatly blessed,
Or deeply troubled
Or someone else’s mother
I just want to get my son down from this wooden thing
And take him home
And make him better
And give him something to eat
And hear him laugh
And persuade him to give up being the Messiah
And go back to carpentry