Day 337 and I'm just back from cold Minneapolis .....strangely, cold and snow put you more in the Christmas mood. Spend all day today Christmas decorating (yuck I loathe Christmas lights and contrarian wives!). Tomorrow Redeemer's Church Christmas stage design will dazzle and draw us into an Incarnational worship experience.
Day 2 of advent thoughts:
In our world, as in world's past, a persons geography so often defines their destiny.
Live in Africa and you will be poor.
Live in the US and you will be educated.
Live in North Korea and you will be isolated.
Live in France and you will loathe English cooking, etc, etc.
The Christmas story reminds us that the Scripture's will have none of this geographical fatalism that dismisses individuals, families, towns or entire ethnic groups.
People then, like today try to insist on this geographical fatalism.
In Jesus' day they said "what good thing can come out of Bethlehem?"
Christmas and Jesus kick geographical fatalism in the butt!
Now, God's goodness and God's good people can be found anyplace where people accept His grace.
Thank God for Bethlehem - it changes the reality of people living in the Huruma slum, Kenya; the poor village of Jocotillo Guatemala; the earthquake ruin of Haiti; the red light zone of Tijuana and the heat, flatness, bad air, 15.7% unemployment Central Valley, CA.
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