“Christmas Eve Homily”

“Christmas Eve Homily”


Date: December 24, 2017


by Marcia Mount Shoop

John 1:1-14
John’s Gospel doesn’t tell the story of the nativity that Luke’s and Matthew’s Gospels tell—instead this Gospel writer tells us the story of the cosmos—before there was time, before there was anything—this source of all wisdom, the source of light and life, yearned to come close to us—and the Incarnation is that yearning becoming as concrete, as mind-blowing, as world changing as a God who believes in our capacity to be redeemed enough to come to us this way—the way of need and exposure and vulnerability, this way that needs us to be tender, that needs our better angels to risk wondering and risk believing.

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