Christ was the very first Christmas present ever and this single gift changed the course of humankind forever.
No way as mere humans can we understand God’s plan in giving us Christ. A love so amazing indeed. I alluded to in my last post that this “journey to Christmas” started a long time before any of us were born and before the birth of Christ as well. God’s plan was grand and he let it simmer until just the right moment.
God created us in His image, he gave us opportunity after opportunity to embrace him and to understand the lessons he sent our way. Eventually, however he realized that we were having trouble relating to the heavenly messages he presented. He devised a plan to send a part of Himself, his son, to earth to journey with us on the human path. To experience humanly temptations, to feel the pull of everyday life and to reach us in ways that perhaps we might understand just a little bit better.
I’ve often wondered why one of the first miracles performed in the Gospel of John is the turning of water into wine at a wedding. At first glance, it seems such a mundane miracle. Not something worthy of the Savior. A ‘waste” if you may of a perfectly good miracle. Yet after reflection, how perfectly “human’ this miracle seems but how gloriously heavenly it is.
It is a glimpse into the life that Jesus led. Common and miraculous all at the same time. It is this life that God calls us to, on our journey to Christmas. While none will walk the path that Christ walked, we are each called to be not only common but miraculous as well. It is in this season that we are called to give more freely, to love deeply, and to understand that the nature of our life here on earth is one of becoming more closely connected to our Father.
How profound and moving that God has given each of us this opportunity. Use it wisely. Yet this first step on the path, only leads us to something grander, tugging at our hearts. We know the Christmas story is one of hope, of forgiveness, of redemption.
Choose your path to Christmas wisely.
Hugs everyone!
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