WARNING
PREACHY…
I remember vividly the events of 9/11/2001, I think because the scene was
not of a place and location that was unfamiliar to me but rather I had known
the towers of the World Trade Center, I had seen them in real life and even ran
my hand along their sides as I walked by them.
The images I saw on 9/11 of the buildings having jets flown into them
and then collapsing down into piles of rubble had a great effect on me, not
like the war scenes from strange and faraway places; these images were real and
personal to me.
I was at college that day watching the events unfold and the video of the
planes crashing in replayed a thousand times.
When I finally emerged and stepped outside I was struck with eeriness
because the world was quiet. I looked in
the sky and there was no air travel: no helicopters, no puddle jumpers landing
at the airport next door, and no jets way up high visible by only their jet
streams. In fact, the sky was completely
empty of jet streams that usually filled up the sky’s palette of blue. It was eerie as if without the sky’s clutter
the world became amazingly quieted.
I wonder if the world experienced this sort of hush when Jesus was born?
The babe born to Mary was Immanuel which means “God with us.” It seems to me that this single event must
have been felt by both believer and non at the same time, though with varying
effect and understanding. I can imagine
the Wise Men getting a strong urge to step outside and look to the stars when
Jesus entered the world. I wonder if
they felt it, the eeriness of something cosmic happening? I suspect they were spiritually in tune like
that.
Do you feel it? As we remember and
celebrate the birth of our savior do you feel the echoes of the world’s
rejoicing? Doesn’t the very thought of
God becoming Flesh boggle the mind and cause you to awe? Do you worship with the common-man shepherds
or with the nobility, the wise men, and the kings?
As we celebrate the birth of God this Christmas, let us look to the sky
recognizing how the cosmos reverberates with His entrance into the world and
rejoice with all creation in reverence for our new born King.
Have a Merry Christmas!
