crazy?

Everyone in the story is crazy
a girl in her early teens says that she’s expecting having never been with a man.
A fiancé’ that believes her.
yes
crazy
Eastern mystics chasing a star every night at dusk.
sleeping in the daylight
traveling on the red-eye roads of night.
Westward-bound,
Shepherds claiming divine announcements and angelic hosts.
Prophets and poets waiting for the hope of the world.
a king jealous of an obscure child.
murdering a town’s population of infants.
A Jewish child, a prince of nations.
crazy.
But what if…
What if there was a God.
What if there was a deep hunger in the heart of heaven
What if God desired love and the love of God desired us-
all of us
the whole world.
What if the course of human history was laid on the table for this one moment
when God reached down in flesh.
What if God realizing that man's ascent would never reach the cusp of the divine and that He is far too difficult a concept to be explained in documents and rituals
What if He knew the only way to the heart of man would be to take on flesh and live with us.
settling the debt of Eden.
What if it were all true
What would we call it?
Beautiful
and it is.
and He is.
And now he’s calling us out of our own craziness into the lucid reality of grace.
Lord, open us to the truth, the reality, the history of your extended hand that found it’s way to us.

Comments

[jodi richfield]

extraordinary Matt,
Merry Christmas

[matt]

Thanks Jodi! Merry Christmas to you as well.