He keeps them in His Heart as a precious treasure and guards them as the apple of His eye, according to the divine words: "The alms of a man is as signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye" (Sir 17:18), which means, "As a man having a purse full of diamonds would guard each stone jealously, so does God keep the alms given or the favor shown to a poor man, even if it were only a glass of water. Luke 2:19 - But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.
Luke 2:16-20 Scripture Reading: Luke 2:16-40 The older I get, the more precious a commodity memories become. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. In the second place, Mary knew that the love of her Son Jesus Christ for mankind is so great that He counts every hair of their heads: "The very hairs of your head are all numbered" (Lk 12:7) all their thoughts, all their steps: "Thou indeed hast numbered my steps" (Job 14:16) and that He takes into account the least action performed for love of Him, in order to reward each deed with an eternal glory. Luke 2:19 :: English Standard Version (ESV). But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. CSB But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them. In the first place, Our Lady knew that no part of the Savior’s life could be termed small, that everything in Him was great, divine and admirable and that each one of His footsteps, each breath, each flutter of his eyelids, each very least thought of His, deserved the eternal adoration of angels and men. NASB But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart. She kept them, not in part, but entirely, omnia.
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