Today's Scripture Reading (December 24, 2023): Isaiah 9
I
don't
want to pretend to have all of the answers. For me, pretending that we know all of the answers just adds to the trouble that
we suffer through in our world, and
the cause of much of our suffering
is an unwillingness to have the conversation in which we need to participate. Therefore, we never learn the lesson we need to come to
understand. I do believe in the sanctity of life, every life. And one of the reasons is that we have no idea at the
point of birth who the difference makers are among us. But maybe even more importantly, I think we are all pieces
of the puzzle; I may not have all the answers, but together, we have many more
of them than we might think. Every life on this planet that
we share has the potential to make a difference. I might even assert that every life has the
potential to become a world
changer, but whether
we do is often up to us.
And
that is part of the power of Christmas. A child has been born, and the world has
changed. God has come to dwell among us, beginning that life of change as a
child. The birth in Bethlehem wasn't how we expected God to come, but it is how
he came. And now,
every time a child is born, we are reminded of God's miracle and
the potential for even a child to change our world.
What
God did on a significant
scale we repeat on a minor scale regularly in our everyday lives. Part of the
Christmas miracle was that God didn't do anything unusual; he has used the same
mechanism to change the world since the beginning of time: For unto
us a child is born.
Christmas
is about the child in all of us. And about the potential for change that exists
even among the smallest of those who walk with us. The time has come to honor
the child in all of us, and the one who came that changed everything.
Welcome
to Christmas Eve.
Tomorrow's Scripture
Reading: Isaiah 52
Originally Published on
December 24, 2010
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