tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215116066445385512.post4177782740758177004..comments2023-07-13T05:20:07.334-04:00Comments on Reflections from Broadneck Baptist: Fourth Sunday of AdventAbbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04823753643734462481noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215116066445385512.post-24293849403938312462007-12-19T20:53:00.000-05:002007-12-19T20:53:00.000-05:00The part of this which strikes me the strongest in...The part of this which strikes me the strongest in your comments here is below:<BR/><BR/><BR/>"On Christmas God's vulnerability was shown by God's willingness to become one of us, to be born: tiny, fragile, open to all the physical and emotional turmoil that make up being human. God continues that vulnerability in making you and me the way in which God shows His love in the world today. Are we as available as Mary? As trusting as Joseph? Are our eyes open to the new thing God might me trying to do in our world through us?"<BR/><BR/><BR/>We should be astounded in the fact that God chose to go as direct as possible in meeting us at our level - both in the flesh 2000 years ago and in the world around us now. To be as trusting and willing as Mary and Joseph to do something unexpected, or accept God's work in a different form/package (like Stephen's been talking about lately) is so *hard* for a variety of reasons- all of which really are indicative of how we need to grow as individuals. It's all part of the same core issue- faith in the one who made us and who loves us enough to give us these choices- scary as they might be, as fearful as they may sometimes make us, as fragile are we are even as adults.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03507874062503931824noreply@blogger.com