Star Child—Christmas
Eve 2014 8 pm
Star Child,
earth child, go between of God…..what wonderful news! God has come to be IN human life! it’s all so beautiful, this story of angels
and shepherds and stables and stars. To think that this down to earth child
could transform the world into what God dreams it to be, it’s awesome.
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And yet…and
yet….we only want a baby, not a challenge.
We don’t particularly want to be like the wise ones, whose lives change
direction because of this stable child, this street child, with nowhere to
sleep but a meagre shelter. And so we
still don’t have God’s dream fulfilled….this year, once again, won’t be the year
when Christmas comes for everyone, everyone alive
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Refugees
still have to leave their homes……strangers still knock on our doors….children
still live in conditions worse than stables…..the working poor still have to
slave away on their particular hillsides so we of privilege can be warm and
well clothed. Even we, in our comfort,
know the depths of fear and anxiety, uncertainty and pain. This great beautiful story seems more like
bad news.
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And yet….and
yet…it is a good news story, for the midwife God has not only birthed a
savior, but has birthed a people, you and me….to continue to welcome the
stranger, house the homeless, seek justice for the poor. The great gift WE receive at Christmas is a calling…an
opportunity to have our own longings satisfied, and our emptiness filled, so we
may find meaning and purpose. It is our
calling to open ourselves to this god-who-comes, this divine within us, to set
the hope-for-peace child free in us….
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Then Jesus
the street child, the beat child, the old child, the wise child, will become the
dream child of each of our lives, empowering us to work for peace, speak out
for justice, welcome the stranger, protect the children….then, and only then,
regardless of race or ethnicity or religion, or gender identification, then will
Christmas come for everyone, everyone alive.
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