I read Mary’s song of blessing again. My takeaway for us, especially if we are gathering with family—beware pride, practice humility.
Everyone got Jesus’s birth wrong.
Mary was shocked. And then really pregnant. And escaped the rumor mongers of her hometown.
Joseph was even more shocked. He is almost never discussed again. The mystery man. He just reveals to us what a real man, a spiritual man, would do.
The magi (“wise men”) prepared for a journey, went in a general direction, but still didn’t really know where, and all the imports of the special revelation.
King Herod only thought in terms of the succession to his throne. That sort of reminds us of King Saul trying to protect the succession of his throne from David.
The Gospels record three people contemporary with the event who all saw part of the event but failed to see the full import.
Jewish people during Jesus’s ministry failed to understand the full import of the event and his ministry—until after the resurrection.
His closest friends and followers got it wrong—until they got it right.
I bet that many (most?) people today, even those who claim to follow him, don’t really digest the full importance of the event.
Even so, 2,000 years after the fact, we still have a feast day to remember his birth.
I wish you all a merry Christmas. Put aside pride and differences in order to celebrate with others.
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