I’ve been working on my speech for tomorrow. I guess we call it a sermon!
I started with the idea of peace – being the second Sunday of Advent. The idea of the Peace of God for us stuck in my head.
And yet peace has become so related to wars and people to people that we struggle to figure out what it means to work with God. We figure we don’t want to work “for” God – as in the type of relationship that is fraught with obligations that are based in fear and not wonder!! But we are quite willing to work with God if that means being like God in what we do. We call that holiness!
Of course, we know that is a task that comes with all sorts of problems. Not the least of which is “us”. We seem to get in our own way all the time! What would happen if we just let God get in our way – and be the way for us? I guess that’s what it means to have God with us, in us and for us. Or, as we in practical terms would say – “Christ lives in you.”
Which is the great secret of Christmas! Peace on earth, goodwill to men!!