The Queen

 There is a Feast Day in my church called, "The Queenship of Mary."  What is that?  Well, Mary was the mother of Jesus.  Christians believe that Jesus became King of kings in the Age of Kingly governments.  Now the Queen has no power except what she gets from her husband with whom she is intimately involved in marriage, in the best of relationships.  To become a Queen back then in times of royalty, a women pretty much gave up everything she knew.  She gave up her country, culture, native language and moved to a strange place for her.  She "surrendered."  And then got power from the king.  Without the king, she had no power.  When the king died, she had better go to join a nunnery.  Now Mary gave up everything to surrender to the will of God.  So she lived on earth as Mother, and then was transformed into Queen upon her death.  Her earthly surrender brought new intimacy with God.   All her power, intercessory, comes from God.  Now, I know a guy who had no power over an addiction.  He "abandoned himself" to a power that seemed to take away his addiction.  The fellow had no power himself, but through a step by step love relationship with the Power he discovered, he could be free of his addiction.  The Catholic religion can look weird and strange, that is, until you study it in some depth.  Same with recovery programs.