If you can remember what it was like if you were ever the new kid on the
block, the new kid in the classroom, the new kid on the team and how you just wanted to fit in, be hidden...
Or if you ever loved from afar and dreamed of being with a person who seemed
too good, too beyond you and you can remember your clumsy efforts, how you just wanted to be
close and somehow you just didn’t know how to do it... Or if ever you were all
alone, far from home and had to eat in a restaurant all by yourself at a teeny
table and longed for family, someone familiar, a friend, the warmth of home and
table, then perhaps you get a glimpse
of what God was trying to do in the Incarnation. It as if for ages God had been
trying to get closer, longing to be with us, like us, longing to be
ordinary and hidden in our midst. God has made, is always making the first move toward us. We could say that God in Christ is indeed always toward us. “Love consists in
this, not that we have loved God, but that God has loved us and sent us his
Son...”
