This week: God as a new born. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com]God as a new born is an invitation to reach out and touch one another as a gentle
and caring power. Holding a new born is like holding the future -seeing the future
face-to-face but still not knowing where it will go - where it will take us - how
it will be transformed. In the present, we have a new born - like a new day. It
if fresh and open to life as never before experience. God as a new born invites
us to dream and imagine what will be. This is not an imagination that seeks to control
what will be - it is an imagination filled with freedom to become a child of God
each and every day. Within that freedom to become me and for you to become you
- comes the invitation to become a part of a community. God as a new born is life
that comes into being within the arms of others who are beloved of God. Those arms
are meant to shape the new born into the fullness of God's image. That is a community
endeavor. Just as we love to pass a new born from one person to the next so that
everyone can go 'ahhh', the beloved of God are given the task of wrapping the new
born up with a love that will become that same love - unconditional, eternal, deep
and wide.
O God of love and new life, come and hold us and then send us and then open our
hearts to the wonder of new life that awaits the fullness of our participation.
Amen.
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