A baby changes everything. How many times have you heard that phrase? And if you are a parent, you know it’s true. The most significant and life changing days are when babies are born. Few are the women for whom motherhood does not cause a seismic shift in priorities and understanding. The birth of a child changes dads also, to be sure, but the mother is the one whose body has been linked with this new little person for nine months, creating a bond that can never really be broken. Extended family and friends help to welcome babies into the world as well, all celebrating the joy that has come.
New life. New hope. New promise. Is it any wonder that God chose to come into the world this way? He can do anything he wants, any way He wants – He can rearrange molecules and reach into time and space and touch the smallest of things. He could have come into the world in some other way, or to a family of prominence or wealth. But He came as a small vulnerable baby to the humble, to show us how to be humble. He came in the lowliest of places, among hay and cattle, the Bread of Life, to be laid in a feeding trough. The symbolism is rich – “This is my body, given for you.”
When new life comes and we hear a baby’s first cry, there’s relief and joy. But the cry that split the darkness that Holy night was like no other.
God, yet man.
The human and the divine, somehow, miraculously,
mysteriously intertwined in this one tiny baby.
Is it any wonder he chose to come in this way?
It is the wonder of wonders.
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