Christmas
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, humans 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.
1 comment:
I presume that I never told you my merry Xmas story.
Bob Pasquarelli and were doing oil paints in grade school. My painting was a failure His looked Like a world famous artist would hold it in awe. Remember we were taught by the Sisters of Mercy. I thought the nun was going to beat the hell of me.the sisters attacked from the rest sneaking like a Japanese Wrestler. When she attacked, she beat Pasky. His picture had a magnificent painting of jolly old Saint Nick. Unfortunately, Pasky titled his work. “Merry Xmas he was beaten for taking the Christ out of Christmas, then I was beaten for laughing,
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