The Word who lived among us
What we have looked at and touched with our hands,
Concerning the word of life. 1 John 1:1
Read John 1:1—5,14
All this Christmas Day I have been dealing with what Jesus has done. From the time I woke, through all the worship, greeting fellow worshippers, my meals, my fellow diners, the times I shut people out to claim a quiet moment; if I sat for a little to attend to a bird or a poinsettia or to feel the bark of a tree, Jesus has been in every moment of this day because all things came into being through him. Now I acknowledge that he has spoken God’s ‘Yes’ over it all because he is the Word of God and he can speak that yes and he does do it. And also I acknowledge that God in the flesh has done the same things in his world as I have: worshipped, eaten with people, claimed a quiet moment, felt the bark of tree a (I leave out all the suffering part for now, except to say that what I have known of that, what this world knows of suffering, he knows far more). God has done the same things in his world as I have because the Word became flesh. That’s the glory I think on tonight.
Father, I thank you this night that I have been given another Christmas Day. I thank you for all it has brought to me, and to others. Bless everyone I have seen today. You have been among them. I thank you that from the beginning you spoke your own meaning and purpose into the whole creation, so our lives, mine and those I have met, must be full of meaning. And I thank you that Jesus was born among us. This central meaning and purpose has walked the earth and claimed the earth. And I thank you that I have been able to meet him, and to know him, and to accompany him on my own way. Here, in him, I find life because in him the very meaning at the heart of all creation has come into it, and has come to me.