This week: God as Glory in time and space. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . Well, today is Christmas Eve. If you are feeling like a shepherd left on the hillside in the dark waiting for morning to come so that you can simply go home and sleep - watch out. For unto you comes God as Glory in time and space. That is - God into the time and space of your life - wham! Most of the time we cannot see it - most of the time we definitely don't feel it - and yet, the Glory of God comes as a promise to fill up the time and spaces of our ordinary lives. Look at it this way, the shepherds could have said, "forget about it - we're staying here - we're always left out - nothing ever comes to bring anything new to us - our lives are just like sheep droppings on a hillside, in fact, that how other people see us." God as Glory in time and space does not take our views into consideration. God as Glory in time and space will invade the world as we see it and have come to know it. God as Glory in time and space claims everything around us and invites us to do the same. Maybe this 'Christmas story" is one way to look up and take notice of the Glory of God around us - even when we are cynical - skeptical - bitter - bitten - feel brushed off and forgotten. And yet, how does God as Glory in time and space come forth to us? Well, in the time and space around us that is filled with smelly shepherds, people we would like to dismiss, infants who have yet to actually nurse from their mother's breasts. Yes - Glory is all that is around us. That is often so hard to imagine. O God of love and new life, open our hearts to take in your Glory however it appears around us. Amen. |
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