Today we celebrate God's stepping into Time. In this extraordinary integration, He enters a Middle Eastern family and places Himself in their care, the finite and the Infinite in a simple domestic human scene.
Always responsible to Him, they became responsible for Him.
Imagine that. This is a moment of almost Nordic complexity.
The message of Christianity--that of forgiveness, love, family and community of man--so distilled down in the symbols of this holiday, is so optimistic and hopeful one is always struck by the homicidal, nihilistic, despairing and similarly faith-based philosophies that have risen as alternative explanations of man's condition.
It is hard to believe an active evil force is not present to influence it.
Merry Christmas.
Always responsible to Him, they became responsible for Him.
Imagine that. This is a moment of almost Nordic complexity.
The message of Christianity--that of forgiveness, love, family and community of man--so distilled down in the symbols of this holiday, is so optimistic and hopeful one is always struck by the homicidal, nihilistic, despairing and similarly faith-based philosophies that have risen as alternative explanations of man's condition.
It is hard to believe an active evil force is not present to influence it.
Merry Christmas.
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