God Arrives

               

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale

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sorry Norman

but you’ve really got it scewed up

Christmas does not make the world softer or more beautiful

Christmas, he advent

The arrval of God is rarely

Soft and comfortable

Ask mary, pregnanant and unwed at 15

Oh yeah!  Right!  Easy, cool, special

Well it was, but it sure as hell wasn’t easy

Jospeh

I don’t even want to go into that mess

Then we have dirty shephereds

And caves passing as mangers

And babies being murdered

Christmas is real

Very very real

We don't choose God coming

or how God comes

or the implications of how God comes

when God comes it is often difficult

hard

painful

embarrassing

shaming

and yet all we can do it go with this uncomfortable

inconvenient God

and do the best we can with that

filling

that comforting

that disturbing

powerful

crazy

power that comes

all we can do is make something happen

something new

something life changing

something life deepening

and that

I think

Is the whole point!