AWAY IN A MANGER – Christmas Card
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- Both during Christmas festivities as well as prayers of thanks in the season a mediating thought can be that God appeared on earth amongst the poor. Why? There are some suggestive indicators from which a design may be worked out. It was probably a recognition that the great multitudes on earth were these materially unfortunate people . It is not that the more fortunate classes were neglected by The Lord but as the Bible quotes Jesus as saying in Luke 18:25 that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” It is also in the Qur’an of Islam. The “Eye of the Needle” was in fact a narrow gateway into Jerusalem. Since camels were heavily loaded with goods and riders, they would need to be un-loaded in order to pass through. Therefore the analogy is that a rich man would have to similarly unload his material possessions in order to recognize the transcended message of God. Not impossible but more difficult.
So, amongst the multitude of the poor was the preferred place to initiate a transcendent spiritual signal, which is outside the human experience, as was the event with God and the virgin Mary, with Joseph understanding and accepting the trandence. The experience that Joseph had would probably have led to separation proceedings with a man of the upper classes. God knew where first to appear, to begin the process that would spread widely across.
CHRISTMAS AND SEASONS GREETINGS FROM NALNI AND MAC BLESS YOU
