- Again, just like yesterday, the Church reminds us that Jesus was born as an infant to bring man back to the heart of God. So she chooses honour the man called the Beloved Disciple today during the Christmas season. St. John the Evangelist, John in Hebrew, Yôḥānān, means “Yahweh is gracious”.
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Jesus with John
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If Love is our true destiny, we do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone- we find it with another.
– Thomas Merton
- If love is our true destiny, it can only be found in and through God who is Love. But what if we have been afraid of God? Well, if we have been afraid of God the Almighty Father then we can look through the eyes of a disciple who loved Jesus and was especially dear to Christ’s heart, John, and with him can look at God in the helpless form of an infant. To quote the poetic John, in his opening lines of his gospel:
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12 But to all who did accept him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God. 13 They did not become his children in any human way — by any human parents or human desire. They were born of God.
- As we continue to celebrate the birth of a holy infant, we also celebrate that this birth gives us the power to be reborn as well as children, beloved children of Abba, a holy daddy .
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May we all learn by John’s example of loving Christ. I’m grateful that we can be born of God and have a loving relationship with Him.
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it really is a miracle when you stop to think about it
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