“You need to be more vulnerable. Do you know what I mean?”

Do I?! Ha! Yes, vulnerability is what I’m “certified” to teach! You’ve got to love the divine irony of the Universe. She is a comedian.

God’s language is a force. It has power and is alive. The fourth evangelist uses holy speech to proclaim that the Word has gone forth towards God’s purpose. The purpose of bringing life and light into the world. A purpose that those of us in the world can choose to see or not. But regardless of what we choose we still have received grace upon grace.

Words – speech – bring forth incarnation. Language creates a reality.

God’s life and our life are one life. This is the gift of Christmas. This unveiling of who we are is what enables us to shine our divine light, this little light of ours, in the world. You and I and all the people in those pews are the lights that shine in darkness for one another. In ordinary homes, and ordinary churches, through our incredibly wonderful, unique and ordinary lives.