Celebrating the Birth of Jesus is an awesome event. The event itself, His coming among us in the flesh and His remaining with us until the end of time, is indeed the event that launched a series of events that challenges, enlightens, and sustains our being in this world. He is the ultimate reason for this season and He is the ultimate reason for every season of every moment of world history including the sometimes difficult and mysterious details of each our personal histories, as well as the histories and experiences of every person, culture, civilization, village, town, city and nation on every square foot of every continent.
The time given to me in solitude, which provided greater pockets of stillness for me to surrender to stillness, was both simultaneously a confrontation and a coronation. The confrontation was with the ever-menacing disturbances of the fact and truth of my limitations on every level – mine, yours, the countries, our families, communities, parishes, nations, cultures, generations, centuries, bodies, hearts, minds, souls and on and on.
The coming of Jesus in the flesh - the fact of his coming, the truth and the love, life, and light that He is which unceasingly glows and flows forth from His Mystery as softly as a morning sunrise and sometimes with the incomprehensible force (thanks B16) of a nuclear fission in the very heart of being – has gifted me with a moment of respite, a brief but ever true and real relief from my-our-“the” limited capacity to be loved and to love. The coronation dimension occurred in the midst of the confrontation. Somehow my heart, with all the “issues” connected with the widespread and deep seeded limitation to be loved and love, was kinda crowned with a brief and real serene contentment – the mystery and gift of peace from above while here below – of being held and embraced… a touch of, a gift from the Divine Infant and His Mother and foster father, as the Prince of Peace was in the midst of new difficult and limiting circumstances that did not reduce in any way the incomprehensible measure of His Fullness… This peace from above, the Peace that the world can not give, the Peace that is beyond our understanding, the Peace from the Prince of Peace Himself, this Christmas Peace has come to be with us and stay with us forever…
Regardless of where you are geographically, spiritually, emotionally, physically, financially, economically, along with your families and friends - whatever – make room for this Peace, for this Prince of Peace… It’s waiting for you… He’s waiting for… I’m sending/giving it you this Christmas and always and forever in Jesus and Mary… a very Blessed Christmas to you and all your families and friends… Lord willing talk to ya’ll next week… frstan†...
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