It is not that in believing the story of Jesus that we skip reason, but that sometimes we have to go beyond it, take leaps with our imaginations, push our brains further than the normally used parts of them are used to going.
- Madeleine L'Engle
The intersection of space and time is a great mystery. It is a place we can only imagine as we have set within us the realms we reach toward, or entries to such realms should we choose to enter. Seeking His glory, we step over the threshold into another realm full of impossible possibilities. It is not like us to remain idle and complacent. Aren't we always eager to move forward, into greater good? Or do we stick to the comfortable place even though the better lies just beyond? Getting there takes effort. Our viewpoint doesn't allow us to see over that hill. We must face the climb to get beyond into the greater good. The great good is coming, is coming. And all the world holds its breath until He comes.
And what we see we hold dear. What about what we do not see? Do we hold Him dear as if He were here? He is here, among us, next to us, within us! It is Christmas! He came in the flesh. Every act of love is Him, come. Whether pronounced or not. Love is His fingerprint. His flesh is love as well. He chose to suffer for us, by way of entering our world, giving away the power He always wields.
This is the baffling mystery we can ponder year after year, stretching our imaginations across space and time. The way we view time, or the way God views time? One is linear and straight. We are caught in it. There is no escaping it. The other tends to curve around us all, weaving together the divine nature we try to understand, but only get wrapped into the deeper mystery.
Are we willing to be stretched? Most of us not; we like our comfortable spot of worldly pleasures without meandering into the mystery. And yet,they never fully satisfy. No matter what it is, it will not satisfy. As C.S. Lewis put it, if we don't ever seem to feel fully satisfied here with worldly things, we must be made for another world.
We have to be willing to open up to the other world. May the mystery of God lead us into our imaginations.
Merry Christmas to you!
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