Comments on: Christmas and the Sacrament http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/christmas-and-the-sacrament-2/ Truth Will Prevail Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ray http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/christmas-and-the-sacrament-2/#comment-245275 Ray Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:58:42 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4305#comment-245275 Beautiful, Adam. Simply beautiful. Beautiful, Adam. Simply beautiful.

]]> By: Janet http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/christmas-and-the-sacrament-2/#comment-245257 Janet Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:41:29 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4305#comment-245257 Thank you, Adam. We finalize our adoption and will be sealed to our beautiful baby boy in January, so I'm also especially appreciative of the notion that God entrusted his only begotten to an adoptive father and that, according to Paul, we are all God's children through adoption. I'd never viewed the nativity in that light before. This year has brought all sorts of wonder to my life. Our renewed innocence in the face of God's trust in us constantly amazes me. I've been thinking about how baffled Mary and Joseph must have felt by their Father's act of entrusting them with the Christ child and--as you allude to--how each birth replicates this baffling act of faith. Congratulations on another Christmas with a new baby at the Greenwood house as well! Thank you, Adam. We finalize our adoption and will be sealed to our beautiful baby boy in January, so I’m also especially appreciative of the notion that God entrusted his only begotten to an adoptive father and that, according to Paul, we are all God’s children through adoption. I’d never viewed the nativity in that light before. This year has brought all sorts of wonder to my life. Our renewed innocence in the face of God’s trust in us constantly amazes me. I’ve been thinking about how baffled Mary and Joseph must have felt by their Father’s act of entrusting them with the Christ child and–as you allude to–how each birth replicates this baffling act of faith.

Congratulations on another Christmas with a new baby at the Greenwood house as well!

]]> By: Adam Greenwood http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/christmas-and-the-sacrament-2/#comment-245184 Adam Greenwood Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:33:41 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4305#comment-245184 Congratulations, ma'am. You've mentioned it before but I was slow in saying anything. Congratulations, ma’am. You’ve mentioned it before but I was slow in saying anything.

]]> By: Janet http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/christmas-and-the-sacrament-2/#comment-245181 Janet Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:27:17 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4305#comment-245181 This is quite lovely, Adam. Thanks. As a new (long-awaited) mama, I especially like: "Every birth is a nativity for the family involved. Every newborn babe unmans us, because against our experience we see innocence and holiness existing in a fleshly vessel. Births are a miracle. In this way every birth is like Christ’s birth. His birth does to all of us what individual births do to parents. He unmans all creation. And because we experience innnocence, in a sense, in a sense we are spiritually reborn when we are at a birth. For we individual parents, at the birth of our children. For all of us, at Christmas, at Christ’s birth." This is quite lovely, Adam. Thanks. As a new (long-awaited) mama, I especially like:

“Every birth is a nativity for the family involved. Every newborn babe unmans us, because against our experience we see innocence and holiness existing in a fleshly vessel. Births are a miracle.

In this way every birth is like Christ’s birth. His birth does to all of us what individual births do to parents. He unmans all creation.

And because we experience innnocence, in a sense, in a sense we are spiritually reborn when we are at a birth. For we individual parents, at the birth of our children. For all of us, at Christmas, at Christ’s birth.”

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