"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas....Freedom....



Freedom…

On December 25 we celebrate the birth of a baby and this has relevance and meaning because of what it has come to symbolize in our imaginations. A day of joy, hope, freedom – a beginning of a life that would end thirty-three years later on a Cross.

This baby, this light, this miracle, God being born to be with us!

Love breaking into the world.

The first chimes of true freedom!

Jesus, the baby born to set all peoples free, as one of his disciples later wrote, “After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb" (Revelation 7:9-10 TNIV).

It is no wonder that Jesus began his ministry by reading this from the book of Isaiah, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor….Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing" (Luke 4:18-19, 21b).

Freedom…
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