“Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!” (Luke 1:45)   Scripture Reading: Luke 1:39-45 Pregnancy and childbirth are no walk in the park under normal circumstances for a woman in her young and vigorous “childbearing years.”  But for Elizabeth, who was already a barren senior citizen with no children and had a newly mute husband to boot (see last week’s post about Zechariah), it would make sense for her gestation period to be anything but full of peace. And yet, that’s what she brought to Mary – another  newly-pregnant-under-wildly-strange-circumstances woman.   An angel had prophesied the birth of Elizabeth’s son in her…