A BABY Changes Everything

I think we most definitely take for granted the significance of our GOD coming to us as a BABY! We just gloss over it as if that is to be expected. It is a radical radical thing and we should stop and reflect on this often. I love Christmas. I think most people do. Why is that? It's not really the presents or the food or the parties. If we reflect on it - even non-believers too - we can admit that there is something mysterious and other-worldly about this time of year and this celebration. There is something deep inside the human heart that yearns for this kind of purity and joy that only Christmas provides. Why is that? The Incarnation is the most awesome statement of the dignity and the holiness of man - the human person. God came down and was one of us. But not only that but He came down and chose to be small, very small, almost invisible inside the womb of His mother. He chose to live there and to grow there and to stay hidden just like us. He was fragile and helpless and silently swimming in the holy waters within a WOMAN. He was not a man or a warrior or a king but a baby, a baby. What does this say to us about the dignity of motherhood? About the holiness of pregnancy and the unborn? What does this tell us about the power of one tiny human person unseen and unheard living at the mercy of his mother and her willingness to guard and protect and to nurture the life within her? The Incarnation says so much. The Incarnation says everything we need to know about the LOVE God has for His creatures, His children. He loves us and He wants us to reverence the mystery of every new creation, not to fear it. He wants us to see how IMPORTANT this mystery is! He wants us to know that a baby changes everything. A BABY changes the world. He gave this gift to all of us - the gift of Himself. But we must not cut off God's choice to come into this world as a baby from the deep meaning this choice holds. God can choose anything, He can do anything or manifest Himself any way He wishes. He chose this way - Why? It matters. It is the mystery that makes Christmas so magical and filled with wonder. This is the reason we all celebrate even if we aren't believers per se - the Incarnation itself brings forth JOY to the World whether the world takes notice or not. Oh the holiness and joy that was the maternity of our Blessed Mother! The sacred hiddeness of the unborn baby Jesus - GOD hidden inside a woman, inside her womb! The master of all creation the God beyond time and beyond this universe the endless everything the all and total the One who is all power and all truth and all goodness and all light and all love - just a tiny little one...

A Baby Changes Everything - I just heard this song on the radio. check out the youtube video in thie other post... I loved the dual meaning. It triggers a lot of emotion in me. I think it is so beautiful how the presence of a baby and his effect on his mother is hidden in these lyrics but more importantly the pointing to the awesome CHANGE the incarnation of Jesus held not only for His mother but for the WORLD for all eternity!