He Noticed Her
"And Mary said: 'My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.'"
— Luke 1:46-48
Mary was young, poor, unmarried and from a village nobody quoted. She had no status of any kind. Her song does not say God rewarded her for being remarkable. It says He was mindful of her low position, which is the opposite claim. Everything that follows in the song is about God turning the usual order upside down.