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Christmas 2 ABC

John 1:1–18

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

You wish it could be put into words and paragraphs

recited and parsed and memorized and philosophized

offset printed in a leather-bound book

closed and shelved and dusted for good company

But Logos, Sophia, meaning, divine reason

come to us through the cosmic entanglement

of body and God, with birth pangs and dying pains

and all the light and love you can squeeze in between

so that the meaning of God—

if there ever could be such a thing for us to comprehend—

lives in created flesh and blood and heart and mind

suffers mercy without explanation or cause

births hope without limits or permission

delights in life for all its holy humanity