There is still so much for me to learn and I am blessed that God is graciously, slowly teaching me day by day, year by year.This was a special Christmas for me. It wasn’t about what happened on the outside, but what happened on the inside. The wonder, awe and glory of the story of Jesus-come-to earth moved from my mind to my heart. The scriptures and songs of the season took on new meanings. It was an awesome Christmas gift from a loving Father!
I had always understood the significance of Easter on a heart-level, but for some reason, for me, Christmas was an event that happened so Easter could happen. This year, I became aware of why Jesus lived here among us and how much that means for me in my life. It’s hard for me to put in words because it’s more an emotion than something I can describe. It’s beautiful!!
All hail the infinite, infant God!*
*from the song Arrival — words and music by Michael Guy Chislett, Matt Crocker, Benjamin Hastings and Dylan Thomas
Scriptures
John 1: 9-12
The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
Isaiah 53: 2-3
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Philippians 2:6-8
Who (Christ Jesus), being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
II Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
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Had a grandchild ask me how come Jesus is born every year. It left me with a sense that in one way or another he was expecting things to move forward not an annual “groundhog day” experience.
Thanks for your thoughts. Each ear we have an opportunity to understand advent and its culmination a little deeper.
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