GLORIOUS HUMANITY
I have to stop using the word ‘human’ as a pejorative. What I mean when I say humanity disparagingly is really that part of our nature yet to be redeemed. What I mean is ego, hubris, pride, selfishness, greed, self-seeking, narcissism, anger, lacking compassion. It’s the fallen-ness which I’m trying to name. God made and delights in humanity. He created us, and knowing we are prone to wander, God redeemed us. He comes to us and all humankind in celebration. Jesus’s first miracle in the Gospel of John was a wedding – a joining – a union – and the one who helped keep the party going was The Christ, who turned water into wine… and not just any wine, but the best wine. The Church marks Jesus' Incarnation – His beginning and end as God made human, in celebration–but not celebration as those who are yet-to-know God practice celebration. In His beginning, the celebration starts in darkness, as on the first Christmas Eve, when He came into being for the celebration of a new morning