Into the ancient holy land
Behold, the son of God is come to man.
For this is truly my body.
In Innocence fall all heroes and their creeds;
An age is done, an age from here proceeds.
And this is the chalice of my blood,
of the new and everlasting covenant.
What consuming pagan fires could not do—
A covenant of love, and Word made flesh, in You.
Which for you and for the many shall be shed
for the forgiveness of sin.
Sleep swells His breast, though heavy pressed,
By Golgotha, and Adam's sin,
And the hopes of he who signs his name herein.
Jesse
"He has shown you what is good. The Lord requires you to act justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to walk humbly with your God."
Micah 6:8
"Only the humble believe in Him and rejoice that God is so free and so marvelous that He does wonders where people despair, that He takes what is little and lowly and makes it marvelous. And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly.
God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings. God marches right in. He chooses people as his instruments and performs his wonders where one would least expect them. God is near to lowliness; He loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.
In the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Thereafter, any attack even on the least of men is an attack on Christ, who took on the form of man, and in his own Person restored the image of God in all.
Through our relationship with the Incarnation, we recover our true humanity, and at the same time are delivered from that perverse individualism which is the consequence of sin, and recover our solidarity with all mankind."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Repentance - Forgiveness - Thankfulness
These are the greatest gifts that you may ever receive.
Have a Merry and Blessed Christmas
