FAITH

Mary … Did you know?

Pam Griffin

“Mary did you know that your baby boy will some day walk on water?

Mary did you know that your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?

Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new?

This child that you’ve delivered, will soon deliver you.” — from “Mary, Did You Know” (Words by Mark Lowry, music by Buddy Greene.)

Mark Lowry raised numerous questions about Mary and her knowledge of Jesus in his most popular song ever, “Mary, Did You Know.” He has a gift for sharing profound truths through music and storytelling that affect audiences of all ages.

Lowry is best known as a singer and comedian who spent more than 20 collective years as the baritone singer for the Grammy-award-winning Gaither Vocal Band and served as the comedic sidekick for Bill Gaither through live concert tours and the best-selling Gaither Homecoming video series and television airings.

Years from now, Lowry’s most enduring legacy may be the beautiful song, “Mary, Did You Know,” that he wrote in 1984.

“My mother made a statement years before, when I was a child, that ‘if anybody knew Jesus was virgin born, Mary knew it,’” Lowry told The Log in 2003. “She also added that the silence of Mary at the cross was the greatest proof to her that the story is true.

“And that statement stuck in my mind. Years later, when I was asked by my church to write a Christmas musical for the choir, I wrote a monologue for someone to say and from that monologue came the idea of asking Mary questions about raising Jesus, and then the lyric was born.”

Six years later, after two other musicians had already tried, Buddy Green supplied the right music for the lyrics — in only 30 minutes — and the modern classic was complete.