What was easy about that first Christmas Day, 2000 plus years ago?
Not much. There was the difficulty for Mary of what people were thinking about her and for Joseph the same. There was the necessary trip to register at the census/tax office at the worst of times in her 8th month of pregnancy. There was the "no place to stay message" and the "no vacancy" signs everywhere. It was a difficult time, not easy by any stretch of the imagination.
Imagine in the presence of all that uneasiness that the message of the angels was a simple "be at ease".
"Be at ease" does not mean that things are easy or that it is easy to be calm in difficult times or in the storm.
It means that when you cultivate an internal space of calmness whatever is not easy becomes more easy.
So the next time you are uneasy about something anything see if you can step out of that feeling and hear and "be at ease".
It is a message of Christmas!
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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