Women who have carried children know the experience of quickening and what it means to have a child kick them and move during pregnancy. What reason do we have to consider that Elizabeth's interpretation of that seemingly insignificant

act was a correct one.

Elizabeth saying, and how has it happened to me

that the mother of my lord should come to me.

It reflects a prior understanding of Elizabeth,

of the significance of this child that Mary is carrying.

How is it possible that the mother of my lord,

notice the respect that the elder woman gives the younger woman, which is unusual that Elizabeth

sort of subordinates herself to Mary, calling herself privileged, that she could be in the presence of Mary, Mary being

exalted because of her role as being the mother of the Lord.

For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy.

You know, women who have carried children know the experience of quickening and what it means to

have a child kick them and move and I guess there's no way a man can understand the phenomenon of a child with

quickening movements during pregnancy. I can remember when Vesta was pregnant.

After six weeks we looked at the pictures of how big the fetus would be now,

and after eight weeks, what was developing,

and after nine weeks, and after ten weeks,

you know, you go through all that business with the first child.

And then the thing that you're really looking forward to first is quickening,

where there's the first feeling of life.

But after a couple of more months,

when the baby really becomes active and starts kicking and bulging out the side of the abdomen and all the rest.

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