Fiat

LET IT BE SO

Fiat is the decree of God as his heart cries out ‘let it be so’.

The Latin word, fiat is originally used in the Book of Genesis when God creatively decrees 'let it bo so' and announces humanity into being. The Word is riddled with ‘fiat’ moments as patriarchs and matriarchs boldly cry out, ‘yes God, let it be so with me according to your word.’

Luke one thirty eight

Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be done with me according to your word.

Hidden in Mary’s fiat yes to the angel Gabriel’s decree of the Christmas birth is the anguished cry of a mother. The travail of motherhood cries out as Mary gives birth to the bittersweet seed of joy and agony. On Christmas Day, a mother's cry echoes in the manger knowing that her nativity joy will one day lay down his life for us.

John sixteen twenty one

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.

A military mother deeply understands the agony of Mary as her son decrees his call to the military. It is her fiat motherhood moment as her heart cries out to God knowing her son is willing to lay down his life for his fellow Canadians.

As we celebrate the Christmas birth of God’s son, please take a moment to remember the military mothers and fathers whose hearts cry out for their sons and daughters who have laid down their lives for us so that we can live in this great country.

John fifteen thirteen

Greater love hath no man than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends.


In honour of Corporal Justin Matthew Stark