Yup, it's me (not Karen)!

Yeah, I know it's been four months since I last posted anything on this site. You know how it is--good intentions and all that. Well, because it's been so long, I forgot how to sign up for my own blog (hence, "treeofdeborah" above).

Christmas season is here--but shouldn't it always be? There IS something special, a different emotion (maybe not quite joy but something like it), caused by the lights, the cooler temperatures, the earlier sunsets, the singing. (The same thing happens with Resurrection Sunday too, but without all the above).

Yet, after breakfast and lunch on Christmas day, doesn't it all somehw feel different? It does for me. But I want us to remember the significance of the event we celebrate on this day and at this time of the year.

I forgot where I read this, but it's a line (from a hymn?) that says "Our God, contracted to a span, incomprehensively became man." Unbelievers get hung up over the idea of a virgin birth, but the deeper miracle is God being incarnate--taking on human flesh--in the person of Jesus.

The idea takes us "into the weeds" of theology--how can these things be? How can Jesus be fully human and yet fully God? I don't know, and I can't fully explain it. Those who have in the past (for example, those who wrote the early credal statements) tried; maybe they had to make the attempt to answer early heretics, who themselves were attempting to describe how.

The attempts have led to the exalting of Jesus' Godhood to the debasing of his humanity or vice versa. Scripture presents both sides--Jesus doing the things that only God can do (forgive sins, accept worship) and yet experiencing our humanness (hunger, tiredness, thirst, pain, loneliness).

Starting to ramble, and really, because I haven't posted in four months, I don't know who--if anyone--will read this. But let us learn to "contentedly adore" the One whom God sent into the world as Teacher, Lord, Savior, and God.