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I think the Incarnation hit me quite deeply two Christmases ago when I was expecting our second son and was pregnant over the holiday season. And it really started to resonate with me how much Jesus dignified our human body, and how willing God was to send his son Jesus into the world through the body of this teenage girl, and to enter the world covered in blood and dirt and wetness, and be welcomed as savior through all the broken parts of our body.
One of my favorite lines from a Christmas Carol is the song, “O, Holy Night.” And the line is, “A thrill of hope, a weary world rejoices.” And that has always stuck out to me, especially during Advent, when it is such a time of longing and such a time of being able to clearly see and embrace the brokenness of our bodies and of this world. And how in seeing how truly broken, and splintered, and dark these days are I have this complete thrill of hope when I realize that Christ said this was good. He stepped into this moment, he stepped into our bodies and our world, and there's more good and beautiful things to come.
What I love about the arts, and especially this Advent season, and what I've grown to appreciate under worshiping in an Anglican style, is really allowing an exploration of what is wrong with this world so we can better see what is right in Jesus Christ.
“The time that made Advent meaningful, that made the Incarnation come alive, is we had a family tradition where we viewed slides on an old technology called View-Master, and one of the slide sets was the Christmas story. There was this one picture of the wise men following the star, which covered the wall of the house that we were sitting in, and it was just amazing and mysterious…”