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I wonder how many answers we miss because they look like Relationship instead of taking the shape we expected: a husband or a child, a healing or a job, or deliverance from some temptation or relationship.
Are [our kids] an inconvenience? I know we would never say that, but if they knew the word and its meaning would they recognize it in our tone, schedule, and priorities?
While it is a great mercy to experience the consequences of our sin, it is not enough to restore us. We must also confess. There is no grace or forgiveness in the shadows, in secrecy, in denial, or in private promises to do better.
Instead of preserving his character with distance, the angel asks Joseph to sully his name, tarnish his reputation and shoulder those assumptions alongside Mary.
The greatest miracle of that first Christmas is not that a virgin gave birth, or even that a deity would choose to dwell with us, but that he would choose to dwell AS us.
