What Shows Me That God Cares

Aum Sairam

Merry Christmas And Happy Baba’s Day

May this Thursday [Baba's Day] bring you Strength, Good luck, Success, Happiness and Joy.

The wonder of the Incarnation is that in Jesus we are told that God and humanity are meant for each other. We discover that God loves bodies, God plays with matter, God speaks to us through quarks and atoms and molecules, through blood and lymph and bone. Through every human race and culture. The Christian story tells us that God chooses to be human, chooses to know human life from the moment of conception to the suffering of death. In Jesus, God knows intimately what it is to be a toddler, to have a stomachache, to feel the rain and wind, to be betrayed and forsaken, to die. Incarnation is about God choosing to be one of us, so that we might become communities of compassion, mercy, courage, justice, care, God's embodied presence here and now.

This was a time for watching for the light's return, even in the midst of darkness. This was a time for pondering endings and beginnings.

Jesus birth, singular as it is, also shows us the sacredness of each child, knit together in the mother's womb by God's own Spirit. Jesus birth reminds us that each household is dear to God.

God's presence makes the world. God's presence makes you, makes your family, makes each person. God's presence invites loving, active response. God's incarnate presence provokes us to action, to care, to justice.

At this season of the year, when we celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus in the midst of the hubbub in Bethlehem, this tradition invites us to notice God being birthed in our midst, in one another, in our friend, in our foe.

He loved the earth, loved it as a lover because it is God's earth
He loved it because it was created by his Father
From nothingness to be life's temple.

Allah Malik