RoboPreacher

only at christmas time A sermon on St. Luke's superb Christmas Gospe l: A very Merry Christmas to you all ! You’ve done it. After a month of nonstop shopping, cooking, cleaning, wrapping, mailing, reassembling the family like a stubborn jigsaw puzzle, watching your diet, arranging your schedule like a suitcase two sizes too small , and just generally running hither and yon at a breakneck pace, you’ve finally reached the finish line! Good on ya.   You’ve made it. Take a breath of relief. Savor this moment. At last, there’s nothing more for you to do . Your to-do list is happily done !   And even if everything isn’t done, savor this moment anyway . For one thing, it’s too late ! There’s nothing more you can do now . So you might as well sit back, relax , and enjoy this moment.   We could use the reprieve , too. Couldn’t we? Yes, we're worn out. But the truth is, even the most prepared among us don’t have everything done. No, we all still have more left to do. ...

i should be satisfied Isaiah 40:1-11 “ Prepare the way of the Lord .”   … Sounds pretty good . Doesn’t it?   It certainly fits with our most beloved image of ourselves and our lives; as preparing . Getting ready . Day by day, little by little, putting our lives , and the life of the world , a little more in order … Prepare the way of the Lord ; yeah, it sounds good… It sounds good only so long as you don’t actually think about it. The Advent devotion Amanda and I are reading offers a helpful description.   It read: All we can imagine is that God is infinite , overwhelming , and beyond words. Millions of light years mean less to God than a centimeter for us . Nebulae and the Milky Way are likes specks of dust that dance in the sun for God . God upholds everything with almighty power. God knows everything , even the invisible electrons that revolve in their orbit. …Then the writer asks, “what about us .” What about us , indeed...