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Christmas 2019

Good morning and Merry Christmas to each and all of you.

2000-ish years ago, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob decided that the time had come to join us again on this planet He had made for us. This time, rather than hovering over the waters, He overshadowed a young girl. This time, rather than appearing in a Temple made of stone, He appeared within a human temple so that He could not just live with us, but be one of us. This time, He came as a child to portend the kind of life He would live among us. This time, we would see God as the image we are made and called to be. This time, in showing us God, He would show us, us.

This coming we know was promised. Promised as grace to relieve, to redeem, to reconcile. This child is Messiah, the Promised and Anointed One who in living among us would show us the way. The way of God, the way to God, the way in God. The Life in God that He offered and offers today.

He offers the way to become a child, the incarnated God 's very image and likeness. He will eventually live the way among us and take up his home in us. Paul will be in pangs of childbirth until Christ is formed, lives, and is matured in us.

You and Mary, the objects of the Spirit's coming. Her to bear Him intimately within her until He is formed in your likeness; yours to bear Him within you until you become His likeness, formed intimately in you. Mary is known as Theotokos and in that, invites you too to become a Theotokos, a God-bearer for the world.

Yes, God has done miraculous things today. He will do even more miraculous things in you. The times have reached their fulfillment and it is time that God, fully formed in His disciples, leads all who will, to the Life God has always wanted for you. 

I hope you all have a great Christmas. As you open those gifts, remember The Gift and notice the God-people around you. 

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