Imagine what it would be like being a baby. You have no control over where you go. Even after you start crawling and walking bigger people can just pick you up and move you around. You might fall to sleep being held and wake up in a crib or many other freaky things that are beyond your control. You might fall asleep surrounded by people and wake up in front of a giant TV with weird sounds and puffs of smoke, air, water going off in your face.

I wrote yesterday about the incarnation, a fancy word for “God becoming a man.” I talked about how Jesus had everything, was everything and gave it all up to become nothing. That was powerful and amazing but it wasn’t a one day event. Jesus continued to be nothing fo about 33 years until he died as nothing, mocked for trying to teach Love and the way to Life.

I wonder about the days after his birth. Joseph is going around town talking to the same friends and family that wouldn’t let the pariah couple stay while Mary was pregnant. Would any react differently? Would he be able to get a job and settle in with his family? Mary continued to wrap little Jesus tightly and put him to sleep in a feeding trough until they got a place to stay. About two years later little Jesus got a visit by some strange men wearing shiny clothes. Did he try to play with the buttons? Did he try to eat them? Did it frustrate him when Mary put him down for a nap? One the long trip to Egypt as they fled the wrath of Herod did Jesus get bored?

Do you ever think about that sweet baby Jesus being God and what that all means?

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