Sometimes
when a child is born, we look in its eyes and say that it must be an “old soul”
because of the wisdom we see there. Imagine what it would have been like to
look into the eyes of the infant Jesus, the oldest soul of all, who was with
God from the beginning of time!
Christ came
to us as a human so we might know God, and yet, by becoming human, it stands to
reason that Christ came to know us more intimately as well. Now he knew what it
felt like to be human, to be pushed
out of a warm womb into a cold world, to be hungry, to be soothed by a mother’s
lullaby. The fact that we have a God who knows what it is like to feel pain and
betrayal, as well as friendship and tenderness, binds us together more closely
than in our former relationship of Creator and created.
By taking on
our flesh, Christ proved what Gandhi observed: “Love is the strongest force the
world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.” In the midst of the
great challenges of our day, we need to follow the example of our God and
counter intolerance, greed, and indifference with humble acts of love, trusting
in the one force that cannot be overcome.
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