Podcasts – Page 25 – Contemplating Grace

Podcast of The Advent of Gifts

We are beloved children of God, but we cannot know this until we have integrated the gifts of the spirit into our everyday lives.

The linking of the birth of the Christ-child with the winter solstice holds a profound message for us...

We lose sight of the reality that all births are miraculous...

When we do not see others, we cast them into the outer darkness of oblivion...

Joy shines through the magnifying presence of the Christ-child...

The farther we stray from our holy center, the less peace we know and the less peaceful we become.

This is our hope: that we would know, or perhaps that we would remember ourselves as the Beloved of God...

We cannot exist in the presence of God until we can exist in the presence of God naked, unafraid, and uninhibited.

Jesus' message is for us to live in such a way now that what we seek in an afterlife becomes our present reality...

Such a (completed) life requires relentless optimism, a bit of faith, and a short memory...