All I Want for Christmas…
“…Just suppose
that we identify (at least in his
‘natural’ aspect) the cosmic Christ of faith with the Omega Point of science:
then everything in our outlook is clarified and broadened, and falls into
harmony.”
- Pierre Teilhard
De Chardin, from his essay, Suggestions
for a New Theology,” 1945
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really
foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a
great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one
thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things
Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic —
on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be
the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the
Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a
fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet
and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense
about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did
not intend to.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere
Christianity
In offering for
your viewing contemplation what I’ve come to call my “annual image,” I ask two
questions. First, will you spend any serious time thinking about what the first
syllable of the word ‘Christmas’ means to you? And second, what are you going
to do about it? In answering the first question, it might be helpful to
consider God’s own perspective as found in Colossians 1:15-17 :
“…He is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in
heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers
or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all
things, and in him all things hold together…”
Have a Blessed Christmas.
T.W.
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