Isn't this the message and mystery we celebrate at Christmas--not that the very fullness of God showed up in a special super being that looked like a human and talked like a human, but that the fullness of God was pleased to dwell fully as one of us, as fully human? To me this means that, no matter how unfavorably I might seem to compare (even on my good days) to Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God, I am, nevertheless, a local expression of this divine Christmas mystery. To know that the very fullness of God is pleased to be dwelling in me is a humbling, astonishing, and, frankly, scary thought; for now the problem is not to 'let Jesus into my heart', as the saying goes, but to let him out of my heart and into my life!
As we celebrate the birth of Jesus, in Bethlehem of Judea long ago, may we also know the joy of looking at our brothers and sisters and saying, with astonished wonder: Gee!He'sUs!
RS
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Just catching up on my blogs... I love that - "Gee, He's Us!" Only a Texas drawl (or a televangelist) could come up with that one...
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