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"OK my frigid Maine partner, let’s see if we have this right. Col. 1:16-17 says, “all things were created by him,(Jesus) and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” This must include all people, including Mary."

Of course; +John said it so much better:

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. 2οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν. 3πάντα δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν.

"That would make God the mother and father of God."

No, that would make God the creator of the Most Holy Theotokos, not her mother nor her father for that matter (except to the extent that He is Our Father). Her mother was +Anna and her father was +Joachim.

It was 19 degrees last Sunday AM as I drove through Pittsfield, thought of your folks and said a prayer of thanksgiving for their many years! :)

2 Degrees when I left the house for court this morning.

“It was 19 degrees last Sunday AM as I drove through Pittsfield, thought of your folks and said a prayer of thanksgiving for their many years! :)”

Thank you and I will tell them this evening. They celebrated their 73rd anniversary at the nursing home where mother is on Sunday. I told them about you and your connection with Pine Point. Mother’s grandmother lived across the street from Maine Central Institute where my grandmother received her teaching certificate. The farm that we used to visit was my great uncle’s in Palmyra.

The families were Murray and Tucker and they are all buried in the Pittsfield cemetary. Both my parents and brother have plots there.