All Saints 2025

“And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed [Gen 2.25]. So ends the creation narrative. Our first parents did not know evil. They knew only the good.

They fell. And in falling, they hid. From God, and from each other.

“Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings [Gen 3.7].

It was insufficient. They blamed each other. They hid from God. But you cannot hide from Him. He sees. He hears. He knows….

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Glory to God in the Lowest

Glory to God in the Lowest, for God deliberately falls into the low places. Jesus is God, in the flesh. But in entering the world, He sets aside the rights of divinity. He must learn the alphabet. He cannot walk, He cannot crawl. He must be nursed. And swaddled. He has become the lowest. And He goes down, into ditches, into loneliness, into hunger. He knows betrayal. A feeding trough is His crib. …

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