MEETING JESUS IN THE ADVENT
Love came down, Jesus came down at Christmas, but through the Holy Spirit, Jesus, our Shepherd King, comes into our lives everyday. We affirm that during Advent, Jesus still comes down wearing many different faces. Jesus still comes today as the incarnate one, the Shepherd King, God with skin and bones on. Jesus still touches us with His loving presence in our midst. I’ve met Jesus in many forms and many ways. I saw Jesus one Sunday in the form of a little boy who ran up and threw his arms around my leg and hugged the stuffing out of me. He leapt out of nowhere in the busy crowd in the Narthex, nearly tripping me. But it was that hug of love that kept me from falling, just as it has been Christ’s very own hug of love that has kept me from falling so many other times in my daily walk of faith. When those little arms…
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