Incarnation Narrative
What is it that becomes incarnate?
Is it a story stitched together around oppression's political hopes and the birth of a child? Is it respectability for a suspect conception? Or is it PR spin for a new religion that needed God to be born in order to keep up with the emperor? Perhaps these things. Who knows? But mostly what becomes incarnate is love woven out of seductive stories that keep hope alive in dark times. As the story goes, so reality becomes. And perhaps this is God with us after all, which the Child shows and tells. © 2012 Tess Lockhart. All rights reserved. |