I’m so glad Jesus was born in a stable.
Because my soul is so much like a stable.
It’s poor and in unsatisfactory condition –
yet I believe that if Jesus can be born in a stable,
maybe he can also be born in me.
--Dorothy Day
[W]hatever cultural warm and fuzzy feelings we have around Christmas, God becoming human and being born among animals was not a pretty sight. This Christmas I want to enter more deeply into that: into the communion of animals and angels who were there, but also into communion with all the beings who are outside the stable.
How to hold those two things in tension, I’m not sure. Maybe we’ll know more on December 26. But one thing I know: God is still entering into our lives and into this world. I am not worried about us not being able to encounter God on Christmas [2025]. God will be there. God will meet us in our needs. What we can bring is our own searching for the spaces in which God, once again, comes to us.
--Dr. Teresa Berger,
Yale Divinity School
Image source: Louis Gumcy, Nativity (Haiti), https://www.etsy.com/listing/1814216938/haiti-christmas-holy-family-celebration?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details
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