Advent: Christmas Eve’s extraordinary surprise


I have enjoyed Disturbing Complacency as it has assisted and enabled me to at least start each day focusing on what this season is all about.

Today is the last day of Advent, and as such focusing on the surprise of a child as God’s answer to what the world needed is quite amazing. Were we might think a great army, or money, or something else might be needed to transform the world; God comes up with the idea of a weak and vulnerable baby.

It is even more amazing to realise that that weak, vulnerable baby totally in the care of a teenage mother and her husband, is actually God incarnate in human flesh.

The miracle, the gift of the season, is so amazing on so many different levels. The more you think about the vulnerability and what may have gone wrong, the more amazing it becomes.

The gift of Christmas is God who became vulnerable out of a great love for the world.

Extraordinary!

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