![ink and watercolor drawing of Mary dancing the Magnificat](https://michellepaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Blue_Brown_Leap_Thumbnail-756x1024.jpg)
To me, Mary dances the Magnificat. The Magnificat is Mary’s song of Thanksgiving after the angel Gabriel comes to tell her she will become the mother of the Messiah (the Annunciation). When I read Mary’s Magnificat song in Luke 1:46-55, the language is so exuberant that I can’t imagine her standing still.