dailydatewithgod

 This is the day that Christians’ celebrate God becoming man and dwelling among us.  The beginnings of that human life were humble and actually easily uneventful by most standards (conceived in an unwed woman, born in a stable, etc.).  However, we recognize and celebrate these humble beginnings this time of year because of the significance of that humility and hopefully take up the call to mirror that in our lives.  Christmas is the incarnation-God becoming in human form. It is a call to live the life that I have been given to be fully myself.  If God had wanted me to be born in a different time and a different place, then I would have.  I have been called to make God known in my life right here, right now.  I often think of something I read once that talked about how God has no eyes, no ears, no arms, no legs and that we need to be that for other people.  We are called on this sacred day to step fully into the life we are given and to live it fully.  Not try to live someone else’s life or be who we think they want us to be. (Unless we think their opinion of us is more important than God’s opinion of us.)  We need to be the eyes, ears, arms, legs, etc. for God. There is a touching story that you may have heard.  A little boy who won’t go to sleep because he is scared about the monsters in his room.  His mother comforts him when he runs into her room and gently brings him back to his own bed.  He goes to sleep and after a short time runs back into his mom’s room.  Again, she brings him back to his own room.  She reminds him of what he learned in Sunday school that God is always with him and that he need not be afraid.  He agrees and gets into his own bed.  A third time, however the little boy comes to his mother’s room and says that he is scared.  She asks him what about remembering that God is with him.  To that he says, “I need God with skin on.”  We are that skin of God.  We are the expression of God in the time and place that we are today.  We are called to live our lives and be an experience of God for ourselves and for others.  As you walk through this day, this day that celebrates God with us, my prayer for you is that you see in the little actions of your day how you are an expression of God for yourself and for others.  May you also see God through others and their actions. We are reminded today in the most precious of ways through a child born in a stable that even the most seemingly insignificant ways we are called to be who we are because God is manifest in us.  I encourage you to be fully who you are today!  Make it a great one. Peace~Colleen

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