Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc. they are all about giving and receiving love, peace and joy and hope for all three.
Simeon and Anna (Luke 2) saw Jesus 8 days after his birth which would be today. They saw the future of his taking on himself the wrath, anger and hatred of humanity while also he saw the transforming of human hatred into divine love, human grief into grace, human fear into hope, and human despair into joy. These are the true gifts of Christmas: to see the world as God sees the world, to see our selves as God sees us: as sons and daughters (Galatians 4:4-6), and to see all people thru the lens of that peace and love inside us as the heart of the Father gave the Spirit of the Son to live in and out of us.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
About Me
- Don Paine
- I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.
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