God doesn't want us as a business partner, as a distant relative, even as a close friend. God wants to live with each one of us, as one of us. That is the miracle of Christmas. God takes on flesh. It sounds impossible. Do we choose to believe it anyway?...
God's coming doesn't depend on us, on the depth or steadiness of our believing. This miracle depends on God, whom we cannot understand or contain, who reaches out to us at Christmas and every day of our lives...
Finding ourselves slightly puzzled and in awe before this mystery is a faithful response.
By Mary Lou Redding in WHILE WE WAIT: Living the Questions of Advent, as published in Sound Bites, the e-mail ministry of the First United Methodist Church in Green Bay, WI.
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