God's Love Letter
 

It is enjoyment in an ultimate victory that can be expressed only in the high language of poetry, not the low language of fact. What can we prove about Christ's coming in glory? Nothing. It is far beyond the language of limited proof. Indeed, our entire faith rests on a joyous acceptance of the factually impossible. When we celebrate Christmas we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being, limited all power, and for love of us came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.

My faith is based on this incredible act of love, and if my faith is real it will be expressed in how I live my life, but it is outside the realm of laboratory or scientific proof. God--the holy and magnificent Creator of all the galaxies and solar systems and planets and oceans and forests and living creatures--came to live with us, not because we are good and morally virtuous and what God's creation ought to be, but precisely for the opposite reasons, because we are stiff-necked and arrogant and sinful and stupid. We have indeed strayed from God's ways like lost sheep.

God still loves us so much that Christ, the second person of the Trinity, the Word, came to live with us as one of us, and all for love.

Madeleine L'Engle Glimpses of Grace; entry for December 27th, pp. 331-332.

In the midst of travel, eating, sharing presents, baking, eating some more, parties, and the excitement of the season, in the midst of the daily routines that, despite the holiday schedule, demand our time and attention, even "going to work" during the holiday season, remember the "Love Letter" that is yours, no matter what, no matter that at times you are "stiff-necked and arrogant and sinful and stupid."

For love of you Christ came to live among us. For love of your beloved, Christ came to live among us.

"God still loves us so much that Christ, the second person of the Trinity, the Word, came to live with us as one of us, and all for love."

 

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Holy Eucharist and Leave-taking
Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Bishop Mathes will lead us in prayer as we say
 "Thank you and God Speed" to Robert upon his retirement.
A Reception for Robert and Robbie will follow the Service.

 

 

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