all is not lost

image: The Brilliance

In December I listened to a Podcast that really challenged and inspired my thinking. I don't want to give it away, but simply, it's a tragic and beautiful story of a man who is a gay priest. I laughed, I cried, I thought about it for days. But one phrase at the very end has really stuck with me. I even wrote it on Facebook at the time: "Christ is born, all is not lost."

The context of that quote is this, "Where love is God is present; this is what we mean by the incarnation of Christ. And Jesus was born in a stable full of sh*t. So in the sh*t of our lives, God is there. Born in sh*t! In the thing itself! Not hovering above. Engaged! And that's what we mean by incarnation. Not just Jesus as the only begotten son of God...but as Paul says, the first born! Not the only born. The First born, so we are the second born and the third born...Christ is born, all is not lost."

ALL IS NOT LOST

Right now in our world it's so easy to feel the opposite of that phrase. If were honest, we know it's a chaotic mess. But because of Christ and what He's done for us, dying on the cross and rising to life so that in Him we can breath new life again, every day of our lives, all is not lost. And this is my hope, my joy and my peace. Christ is born, all is not lost.


Amen.