This struck me in today's scripture...

Mary set out

and traveled to the hill country in haste

to a town of Judah,

where she entered the house of Zechariah

and greeted Elizabeth.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,

the infant leaped in her womb,

and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,

cried out in a loud voice and said,

“Blessed are you among women,

and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

And how does this happen to me,

that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

For at the moment

the sound of your greeting reached my ears,

the infant in my womb leaped for joy.

Blessed are you who believed

that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”

--Luke 1: 39-45

What's not to love about this passage?  Two holy women... in the presence of God and one another... This is what "among women" is all about... Jesus, Mary, community, blessedness.

Enjoy the waning days of Advent.... O come, O come Emmanuel...