We sang
this on the way home from school today. Partly because we were being
silly and partly because it is a bit weird for us to be celebrating
christmas in this weather. Although I've done the whole “Christmas
in the heat” thing before, it's different when you're at home in
the cold, drinking hot chocolate (Because that's all anyone does in
Scandinavia when it's december, right?!!). Malene took a picture when
we lit the first advent candle because we lit it on our porch with a
very green garden around it. We've been watching a Christmas calender
(for those of you who don't know this is, it's basically a Christmas
TV show that stretches over the first 24 days of December), at
Jeanette and Christians house. They already have their Christmas tree
up, so it always feels very christmassy to come over to their place.
One
thing that has become very big for me this past week is how
absolutely absurd the Christmas story really is. First of all Mary
gets pregnant through the Holy Spirit, how weird is that?! Secondly,
God in all his majesty is born as a little baby. I've heard the
Christmas story about a thousand times and I've thought about it
about a thousand times more, but never before has it dawned on me
just how crazy it is! I mean seriously, God sent his own son to the
earth as a baby! Jesus, the Lord of heaven and earth, had to learn to
walk and talk and eat! I can't even begin to fathom a love like that,
a love that makes you
willing to risk your own son's life in order
to save a bunch of people who do you wrong every day. I must admit, I
don't quite understand the Christmas story. I think it is crazy and
weird and sometimes maybe even a bit farfetched, but I also think
that that's part of why it is so incredible. What God has done for
me, for every human being on this planet, is so great that my little
mind can't even begin to understand it. It's hard to comprehend that
God loves me so much that he would set out this grand scheme just to
save me. To be honest I don't think that the fact that we're having a
green Christmas has that much to do with my little epiphany, I still
get hung up on insignificant things like decorations, and which
Christmas cookies to bake. But I am very, very thankful that I now
can grasp just a teeny bit more of just how grand the Christmas
miracle really is.
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