Christmas 2013

Christmas 2013 (Luke 2:1-20) “Glory to God in the highest!’

How do you celebrate someone’s birthday? How do you expect people to celebrate your birthday?

If it were your birthday would you expect some sort of party with food and gifts? Would you be surprised if people celebrated your birthday by ignoring you and giving gifts to each other instead?

Today we celebrate Christmas. Christmas is the birthday of Jesus Christ.

God invites all people everywhere to gather together to celebrate this wonderful birthday of His only Son. Jesus is God the Father’s gift of eternal love to all people.  The gift of God is the love of God in the person of God.

God the Father created this universe, our planet and each of us individually by the power of the Holy Spirit according to the pattern of God the Beloved Son. In Jesus, God the Father unites God the Beloved Son with the humanity of holy Mother Mary by the power of God the Holy Spirit.

On Christmas, God reminds us that He just doesn’t have love- He is love.

On Christmas, the One God reveals to us that Love is an eternal pattern of relationships: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

On Christmas, God assures us by demonstrating for us that His Triune eternal love is universal and unconditional. God loves everyone without exception. There is no one God does not love.

God proves this to us by uniting our humanity with His divinity in the birth of a helpless infant: Jesus.

All of the sentiments of Christmas derive from the pattern of the Beloved Son who became a little child at that first Christmas.

Ponder this great amazing truth. Savor this greatest of all Good News.

Jesus is God with us. Jesus is God for us. Jesus is the infant exiled from the town to the manger. He shivers in the cold. Angels sing about him. Shepherds and Kings worship him. Mary and Joseph look over him and protect him.

On Christmas, we remember that there is no condemnation in God. There is only the infinite and eternal Triune Love manifesting to us and for us in a helpless child.

Jesus, the son of Mary, is God with us now and forever, world without end. Amen and Merry Christmas.