Imagine a beautiful flower.
Not just a cut flower, but the whole body of the flower. The stem, the leaves, the root, … the whole plant that blooms the flower. The all of it, as one.
A week ago, I had a lovely conversation with My friend, Matilde, and we talked about what we celebrate on Christmas. Matty said to me,
“Think about a plant.
How can a flower bloom?
IF there was not the flower, already in the body of the plant.
If God is like a flower,
how can God bloom,
IF there was not God, the flower, already in the body of the plant, in the body of the mother”
If God is in the body of Mary, what this can mean to us is that God is in the body of everyone and everything..
We are full of stardust from the oldest stars in the universe…
We all have the same star-stuff from the bright lights in the sky which have existed since the very beginning of every thing.
This Advent, I started to think that I would like to join my friend, Matilde, who shared with me a radical recreating vision of what, and who, Christmas can be. We say Christmas is about the birthday of God, the birth of Christ, but indeed, it is also the birth of everyone… All children, all of us, are born of the light, born of the genius and creativity of God. God blows the star sparkles, galaxies are born - the sparkles fly and reach every time and every place… Born and reborn in each time and each space, with everyone and every being.
What we celebrate, or who we celebrate, on Christmas, is not just the birth of Jesus…
The birth of God, the sparkle in all of us, the purest form of God’s creativity, God’s genius, is in every one, every body, every thing in the universe.
Like my friend asked me, I ask you…
“Think about a plant…
How can a flower bloom?
How can God bloom?
If there was not God, the flower, already in the body of the plant…”
When I think about the birth of Jesus and his childhood, the purest form of God’s creativity, God’s Genius, God’s sparkle is in the body of Jesus…
I also think about the birth of Mary, and her childhood, and the purest form of God’s creativity, God’s Genius, God’s sparkle is in the body of Mary…
Then, I think about the birth of everyone and everything… and the purest form of God’s creativity, God’s genius, God’s sparkle is in the body of everyone and everything…
So, Christmas is the time of the year when we are invited to think about the birth of God in Jesus, the birth of God in Mary, the birth of God in you, in me, in everyone and in everything… in all creation… the birth of God in salmon, in snails, in sea otters, in sunflowers, and more.
Imagine a beautiful flower.
How can a flower bloom?
How can God bloom?
If there was not God, the flower, already in the body of the plant…
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| Solidarity’ a painting my Jeff Dillon. He auctioned off his work to raise funds for UNHCR. Source: https://www.unhcr.ca/news/artists-across-canada-show-support-for-ukraine/ |
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