Interconnected Christmas

For God so loved the world, he became one with the world. Where God begins and we end is impossible to know. We are interconnected with him and with each other.

“Our salvation, as Elizabeth Johnson says in the online essay, Deep Incarnation: Prepare to Be Astonished, “comes from a woman, and the Hebrew gene pool, baby Jesus was a creature of earth, a complex unit of minerals and fluids, an item in the carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen cycles, a snapshot in the biological evolution of this planet. The atoms comprising his body once belonged to other creatures. Like all human beings, he carried within himself the signature of the supernovas and the geology and life history of the earth.”

We are interconnected more than we ever imagined. As we gather and sing peace on earth, we must be willing to act in peaceful ways to each other and the earth.

He has come to the help of His servant Israel
for He has remembered his promise of mercy,
the promise He made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children forever.
(Remember, Abraham is the father of three world religions. God has come to the help of the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian, which is to say, everyone.)

The virus serves to remind us we are all connected. It’s the world prodding us, getting our attention, reminding us.

How the Chinese go is how the American goes.
How the rich go is how the poor go.
How the republicans go is how the democrats go.
(And how the earth goes is how the humans go.)

We have to transform; otherwise, we will transmit all our problems. Scapegoating must end. Projecting our issues onto others must end. Forgiveness is paramount. God became one with us. Surely, we can see our oneness with each other.