Swept Into the Action – Dec. 28, 2018
“If God chooses Mary as his instrument, if God himself wants to come into this world in the manger at Bethlehem, that is no idyllic family affair, but the beginning of a complete turnaround, a reordering of everything on Earth. If we wish to take part in this Advent and Christmas event, then we cannot […]
God in Lowliness – Dec. 27, 2018
“Only the humble believe God and rejoice that God is so free and grand, that he works wonders where we lose heart, that he makes splendid what is slight and lowly. Indeed, this is the wonder of wonders, that God loves the lowly. “God has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden.” God in lowliness—that […]
Where God Loves to Be – Dec. 26, 2018
“Where the understanding is outraged, where human nature rebels, where our piety keeps a nervous distance: there, precisely there, God loves to be; there he baffles the wisdom of the wise; there he vexes our nature, our religious instincts. There he wants to be, and no one can prevent him.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Mystery of […]
Beyond All Proof – Dec. 25, 2018
“Mary experiences in her own body that God’s ways with humans are wonderful, that he isn’t bound by human standards, that he doesn’t follow the path that humans like to lay out for him – that his way is beyond all understanding, beyond all proof, free, and with a mind of its own.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, […]
