"It is true there is an ebb and flow, but the sea remains the sea.’ You are the sea. Although I experience many ups and downs in my emotions and often feel great shifts and changes in my inner life, you remain the same."
Vincent Van Gogh
Monday, December 22, 2025
Thoughts on Emmanuel
God Wanted to be One of Us
From: Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety
One of the most beautiful aspects of the Christian faith is that when Jesus appears, he appears as Emmanuel, as God-with-us. In Jesus, we realize how serious God is about his promise to be with us and to stay with us. In Jesus, the faithfulness of God becomes even more visible because in Jesus, God became flesh and dwelled among us. He pitched his tent among us. He lived among us. He did not want to keep any distance from us. He wanted to be one of us.
“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
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