Monday, May 13, 2013

Redeemer Devotions for May 13, 2013

This week: God as a new born. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com]Last week I had the opportunity to hold Kathryn Margert during her first day of

life. God as a new life is vulnerability. It is the unfolding story of people whose

lives must be held in the hands of others and whose lives also become the hands

that will hold others. No one fears what a new born will do next - although a poopy

diaper is a bit of a surprise. God as a new born draws us close to one another so

that we will be able to see the child in one another - the new born - the helpless

- the one waiting to be held and comforted and honored. This is all easy to do when

we hold a new born. This child needs us in order to make it through another day.

Imagine caring for the world around us as though we were facing a new born. There

is a good chance that we would look differently at our world. We would also look

differently in regard to how we would interact with the world. Maybe we would be

pulled into a gentleness that promises to do no harm. Who would harm a new born?

Well, who would harm the people you will encounter today? God as a new born insists

on people caring for others - even when the day may be filled with nothing more

than a bunch of poopy diapers.



O God of love and new life, gift us with the ability to see the new born in those

around us so that even our enemies will be re-viewed within the gentleness of your

Reign. Amen.

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