Not Everything Needs to Be Announced
What Mary and Elizabeth Teach Us About Discretion We live in a generation where it has become almost normal to show everything. We announce a new project before we even know whether it will work out. We share a new relationship as soon as it begins. We announce a pregnancy very early. We show the preparations, the steps, the achievements, the changes happening in our lives. Today, there is almost this feeling that if people don’t know what is happening in our lives, then somehow something is missing. As if good news only becomes real once it has been shared. As if a project needs to be announced before it has even been built. As if the people who love us automatically have the right to know everything happening in our lives from the very beginning. And yet, when I read the story of Mary and Elizabeth, something made me pause. Something that seems so simple, yet has become increasingly difficult in our generation: discretion. Elizabeth Was Pregnant. And Mary Didn’t Know. I...