God in Baby-Skin
Christmastime… Expectation is a key theme of the season. Hopeful anticipation is the tenor of Advent, as we remember humankind’s deep longing for its Savior.
The countdown to Christmas also stirs our expectancy for waking up into the magic of gifts and family and festivity. Monday morning we’ll wade through drifts of wrapping paper, enjoy favorite foods prepared with once-a-year extravagance, and visit at leisure with people we don’t see often enough.
Perhaps these things aren’t so very incongruent. Maybe the sparkling, delicious forward-looking we feel for the goodness of gifting, feasting, and visiting is directly connected to the heart of Christmas. Rather than moan about the secularization and consumerization of the Holiday, let’s look with wide-eyed wonder for God in baby-skin, delivered into the middle of our world.
“Yea, Lord, we greet The, Born this happy morning;
Jesus, to Thee be glory given… O come, let us adore Him…”
Scott Burnett
The countdown to Christmas also stirs our expectancy for waking up into the magic of gifts and family and festivity. Monday morning we’ll wade through drifts of wrapping paper, enjoy favorite foods prepared with once-a-year extravagance, and visit at leisure with people we don’t see often enough.
Perhaps these things aren’t so very incongruent. Maybe the sparkling, delicious forward-looking we feel for the goodness of gifting, feasting, and visiting is directly connected to the heart of Christmas. Rather than moan about the secularization and consumerization of the Holiday, let’s look with wide-eyed wonder for God in baby-skin, delivered into the middle of our world.
“Yea, Lord, we greet The, Born this happy morning;
Jesus, to Thee be glory given… O come, let us adore Him…”
Scott Burnett
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