Living the Gospel–Pete Gilmore–Who is in the Manger (Pete says In the Christian faith, we have many images of God. But God presents himself to us in a particular way through Christmas. It is hard to believe that at one point the God that holds the whole of existence together, of whom we might sing, he's got the whole world in his hands, could not lift his own head. He cried, He shivered with cold, his mother, weary from her journey, closed her eyes and rested her head in her husband's lap, and the creator of the universe then drifted off to sleep, belly full of mother's milk, swaddled in the linen of peasants, not royalty. St Ambrose of Milan tells us that Jesus was a baby, a child, that you may become a complete, mature person. He was wrapped in swaddling cloth so that you might be freed from the bonds of death. He came to Earth so that you may be in the stars. He had no place in the end so that you may have in heaven many mansions. This week, as we continue our journey with Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, may we allow God to continue to reveal to us who he is, that we might truly know who we are in his love.)
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