Read ~ Luke 2-4
Hold the story of
Jesus’ birth. What stirs within you reading the Christmas Eve story at Lent?
Hold the story of
Christmas and Easter together today.
Both are about mystery and marvel and that God is at work
in the world today in ways that won’t conform or be confined by us. God’s work at both Christmas and Easter may
not be seen by the masses or trend on social media.
Hold the story of
Christmas and Easter together of God’s presence amid the less-than-perfectness
~ whether that is a cobweb filled barn or a stone-cold empty tomb. What does it mean that God shows up in these
places? Where are the messy barns of
your life and the places where there seems to be no life right now for
you? What would it mean to be curious
and open and present to God there??
Hold Luke’s
opening with two fiercely faithful women ~ Elizabeth and Mary ~ who echo and
amplify strong women in Scripture like Deborah, Ruth, Hagar, and Esther. Sing out Mary’s Magnificat (Luke
1:46-55) and let these words inspire you to conspire with God among the least
and lost and lowly in your corner of the world, right here and now.
Hold Jesus’ birth
that even as the powers that be (I am looking at you, Caesar), think they are
pulling all the strings, God is subversively doing a new thing that others will
never perceive because their power and position and privilege won’t allow them
to receive the equality of God’s love for all.
Hold Jesus staying
behind in the temple in chapter 2:41-51.
The anxiety of parents ~ I mean I am with Mary and Joseph,
losing God’s son would certainly make me frantic too! Hold the phrase that Jesus grew in wisdom
(2:52). What wisdom have you gleaned during Lent? In what ways have your grown having now read
three…yes three…gospels?
Hold all of this
and be held by God’s love that will never let us go. I look forward to next week and journeying
through Luke as we continue this prayer practice of dwelling in the Word and
the World dwelling in us this Lent.
Amen.
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