The joy of sharing life with family and friends. “Yes” to your power of love, which is a big love-squeeze, even in the many failures and disappointments of our lives.įor when we can say, “yes,” we surrender to your infinite love,Ī love which sustains the beats of our hearts, the breadths of our fearful moments, “Yes” to your at-homeness with incompleteness “Yes” to your hidden and inscrutable ways Then-as now-You are here and You are love, and all we are asked to do is to say “yes” to this present moment of life.

And you are perfectly at home with the chaos of the unknown, the fear of the present moment, the uncertainty of darkness. The birth of you, O God, is a birth in darkness, a birth in uncertainty, a birth in love. The whole universe story is a Christmas story.īorn to a young, unwed mother in a dark, out-of-way place, with nothing more than a poor piece of cloth to wrap his fragile flesh in a bundle.įear, uncertainty, darkness, surprise-how could Mary and Joseph have known all that the future would hold? For what is love but a doing, a making, a moving together towards an infinite horizon of life?Ī God-making-mattering world where darkness holds the light, and night is constantly preparing for day. How can the Maker become that which is made, unless the Maker and the made are not simply a static person but a movement, an activity, summed up in the words: God is love (1 John 4:8). You who made the heavens and the earth and all that is within them. Who are you O God? This dark, weary world is searching for you, waiting for your arrival.

When jesus say yes nigel lewis