Two Down Three To Go!

With Christmas just a week away I am in full-blown concert season. My first Christmas worship session was last week at our annual Special Touch REACH New England Christmas Party. It was a great day enjoyed by about 50 disabled individuals and their caregivers. What a privilege to serve these folks!

Today I was able to bring communion and Christmas  music out to the Gardner Visiting Nurses Dayhab program. This is one of three off-campus services our church has the good fortune to be involved in.

Tomorrow night  we are sending out four caroling teams across the country-side to sing songs of the season. It’s just not Christmas without the music!

An Incredible Mystery!

“The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.”
Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline    

One Thing’s Perfect

“Christmases are never the same. They change from year to year, and they are never really perfect, no matter how hard we try to force them to be so. What is perfect is the miracle in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago and the love of God that continues to burst through the chaos of human imperfection; Christmas is finding the Christ Child radiant beneath the daily grime of life.”
Julie K. Hogan

A Minor Key

We cannot conceive how the Divine Spirit dwelled within the created and human spirit of Jesus…. What we can understand…is that our own…existence is…but a faint image of the Divine Incarnation itself – the same theme in a very minor key.
~ C.S. Lewis, Miracles, p147