Pausing a moment to catch my breath
and key out a few paragraphs late yesterday, I wrote that "over the coming days I want to look at here, in depth, some of the
key pivot-points of our pastor’s Christmas-Eve homily yesterday on Jesus' birth".
These points are: Peace, Humility, Simplicity, and Poverty. Since you are
probably at least as busy (still) today as I am, could I at least enjoin
on my reader(s) to still take a little time tonight, and tomorrow, and the days
following, and reflect a few minutes on these things?
Please also do not be in a
hurry to take down your Christmas décor. Keep the tree up, and lit; leave your
cards out on display, keep your opened gifts under the tree: today is just the
First Day of Christmas; the celebration has only begun.
Our heavenly king, lord, rescuer of
humanity, and greatest intercessor with our Father… was born in the stink and
squalor of an animal pen, laid down and bundled up in, essentially, a
food-trough. You want humble? You got it. He through whom the grandest sweep of
galaxies and rainbows, the stunning beauty both of canyon and cantata, were
created… entered our world and our lives and our history in circumstances about
as far from royal and righteous as one could imagine.
He never lost sight of His most
humble of origins. Why have we?
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