Luke 1:26-38

The questions I am asked the most - especially by children - about the anunciation and how God 'made a baby' with Mary is "Didn't God have sex withe Mary then?!" Of course, it is not an entirely serious questions, more a questions aimed at ridiculing thw whole idea that a virgin could miraculously conceive. Luke was doctor himself and the question would have undoubtedly occurred to him (and to anyone else fascinated with the mechanics of things) and Luke provide the answer the angel gave, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you". The result of this is that "the holy oneto be born will be called th Son of God".
It has always seemed to me that just as the Holy Spirit is the creative force behind the start of the universe (and indeed its sustaining force) so the same creative power is involved here. The conception in Mary is a creative act of God - not a sexual act. If we look at the world around us and embrace the miracle of its existence, the miracle of another creative act in the womb of a virgin seems entirely acceptable. If, however, we explain everything according to cause and effect and imagine that the physical universe is eternal in its own right, the conception in Mary's womb is impossible without a physical cause - i.e. a sexual act.
Our acceptance, as ever, is a function of the breadth or narrowness of our world view. To embrace the miraculous requires us to embrace our possible ignorance and relinwuish the pride of our knowing and to let God be God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.