Monday Meditation

The Wonder of All Wonders: A Christmas message for all of us

God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way that people want to prescribe for him; rather, his way is beyond all comprehension, free and self-determined beyond all proof. 

Only the humble believe and rejoice that God is so free and so marvelous that he does wonders where people despair, that he takes what is little and lowly and makes it marvelous. And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly…. God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings. God marches right in. He chooses people as his instruments and performs his wonders where one would least expect them.

God is near to lowliness; he loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken. Where human beings say, “Lost,” God says, “Found”; where people say, “Condemned,” God says, “Saved”; where people say, “No!” God says, “Yes!”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christmas sermon 1938 

May you all have a wonder-filled Christmas.