Advent is Jesus’s Story
Advent is Jesus’s story… A really big, really small part of Jesus’s story.
Consider Jesus, the Word made flesh, creator of the universe. Consider his “Yes!” and the magnitude of his response reverberating through time. His birth impacts our world to this day.
I imagine a Matrix-like conversation beyond the veil... Divine Presence talking with Divine Word talking with Holy Spirit…it would have been epic. After so many Divine encounters with humans, a decision was made for Jesus, Divine Word of creation to enter the human timeline and the human experience. The universe must have been celebrating because this incredible, unusual star lit the night sky above the place of his birth…a heavenly acclamation.
In saying “Yes!” I wonder if Jesus considered being born an infant and the vulnerability of a human babe. As Mary birthed him, held him to her breast and nourished him, he felt the comfort of a Mother’s love. Jesus lived a human life and showed all of humanity a way to live.
In the most intimate way possible, Advent is Jesus’s Story, a continuation of his story began before creation and continuing today and beyond.
Advent is Jesus’s Story.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) 16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and[b] is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
From the Gospel writer known as John, Chapter 1
