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 full of Light. And it is in the night of the Vigil of Easter, that the Church opens her doors in the dark – remembering that sometime in the watches of the night Christ arose—reminding us that we wait (unable yet to see it) for the whole world to be unbound from darkness.
Each one of us and all of us together are meant to leave our darkness to join God in the brightness of His love and glory in celebration. The incarnate Christ has led the way, shown the way, set our steps, laid down the path. And because the image of God is marked in the very core of our being – our life is a journey inward to remember who we are (beloved ones) and whose we are (children of the Creator). And we’re also invited outward to share the Light, grace, hope, communion and peace we have found in God, with others.
Glorious humanity... you and me and so many sisters and brothers. Let us rejoice in the One who created us. Let us rejoice in who we've been made to be...Glorious! BLESSINGS AND JOY...THE CELTIC MONK
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 full of Light. And it is in the night of the Vigil of Easter, that the Church opens her doors in the dark – remembering that sometime in the watches of the night Christ arose—reminding us that we wait (unable yet to see it) for the whole world to be unbound from darkness.
Each one of us and all of us together are meant to leave our darkness to join God in the brightness of His love and glory in celebration. The incarnate Christ has led the way, shown the way, set our steps, laid down the path. And because the image of God is marked in the very core of our being – our life is a journey inward to remember who we are (beloved ones) and whose we are (children of the Creator). And we’re also invited outward to share the Light, grace, hope, communion and peace we have found in God, with others.
Glorious humanity... you and me and so many sisters and brothers. Let us rejoice in the One who created us. Let us rejoice in who we've been made to be...Glorious! BLESSINGS AND JOY...THE CELTIC MONK
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