No event can contend with the emergence of
new life fresh with the dew of spring's
awakening to excite, awe and delight for there
are scant few observers and participants alike
who are not taken with the birth of a dimpled
child much less new births of any creature
presenting as an exquisite immature version of the
maturity that will eventually overtake them.
Without doubt it is monumentally fitting that
the whole of creation appears to be fixated on
the birth of a child as a momentous occasion
in world history leading to the emergence of a
worldwide religion. The elder version hailed
as the Prince of Peace delivered his universal
message in a transmission of earthly life as a
gesture from the God of Abraham. And how
peculiar it is that it had to be a Jewish child
whose identity as the voice of God transfixed
vast multitudes. How much more peculiar that
those worshipping multitudes chose those of
the Prince's heritage to single out as unfit for
habitation among the faithful, to view them
with scorn and derision while hailing the
miraculous deliverance proffered by the Almighty
through a Jewish heritage as a light unto the
world in one fell swoop gifting the world with
the brilliant light of salvation gratefully
accepted while rejecting iniquitous Judaism.
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