January 2, 2011
2nd Sunday after Christmas. A. Year
Christmas celebrates the living Word of Wisdom and women of God,
planting in our special home.
The prologue to the Gospel of John ( John 1: 1-18 ), as is known this passage, it moves from the cosmic to the concrete, from a time before time, the specificity of the Word "became flesh and dwelt among us." This is the story of Christmas the birth narrative of humanity: eternal wisdom of God pitched his tent among actual mortal flesh.
Word ( in Greek logos) of the Gospel of John says to Jesus, also points to the tradition of female wisdom. In this tradition, the feminine Wisdom dwells in God's presence from the beginning. Wisdom provides a rational creation, so that searchers can discern the true divine nature of the world works. But wisdom is not kept on the margins of humanity. She identifies a particular people, Israel, and gives a new land. Even looking individuals, those who wish to pursue wisdom instead of Folly.
The biblical figure of Wisdom explores female feminine imagery concerning God.
Do you use your congregation a variety of images and language
to talk about God and God's action?
Such is the way of the Wisdom of God expressed in human particularity. According Ecclesiasticus 24: 1-12 , Wisdom springs from the mouth of the Almighty, but takes root in particular people of God. Having searched through the sky and the abyss, through sea \u200b\u200band land, feminine Wisdom pitched his tent in Israel.
Wisdom of Solomon 10: 15-21 still progressing towards particular wisdom. Choosing an oppressed people, frees them from their oppressors, guides you on your way and protects it from its enemies. Who can quell his praise? The dumb speak, the children pronounce the good news. This is the role of Wisdom in the history of salvation from the foundation of the world, plants his home among a particular people.
Who can silence the praise of Wisdom?
What forces in our world seek to silence the wisdom and who spoke in solidarity with them?
Returning to the theme, Ephesians 1: 3-14 proclaims how God has distributed every spiritual blessing to a particular people, themselves adopted children of God. These individuals reflect the blessings of God's eternal purpose, prepared before the creation of the world. The Wisdom of God will find its ultimate purpose: to gather all things in Christ.
The concrete real life does not sit easily with everyone. John's prologue recognize this harsh reality, to be rejected Wisdom in his chosen home. Also, as male that transcends gender, Mycal Slack remembers a faith community which continually raises the question: Do you live righteously? ". Mycal perceived to" live right "has to do with full access to all the benefits that the world has to offer. Mycal testifies that if you break the rules or you live outside the bonds of conventional thought and speech, access to deny you these benefits.
Mona West recalls the early Christian tradition that saw Jesus as the Son of Wisdom. In this second Sunday after Christmas, having anticipated and celebrated the birth of Jesus in these passages celebrate our birth through Jesus / Sophia ( wisdom in Greek) has been at the very beginning of creation. Following Jesus, declares Mycal, means living according to your own truth, despite the resistance one faces.
Not only is Jesus the Son of Wisdom, but through the Word / Wisdom of God also we are. LGBT Believers testify that the church is not saying whether or not we are children of God, not our sexuality, nor theology and orthodoxy, but we welcome the envoy of God. The Logos / Sophia does not discriminate on the basis of race, class, gender or sexual orientation.
How does the Wisdom of God in a particular way in your community?
During Christmas time the LGBT community and its allies held the eternal wisdom of God to plant his home in the particularity of mortals. We bear witness to the Word of God, who lived the divine love in spite of violent resistance. We affirm our identity as beloved children of Wisdom, which participate in the saving work of God to unite all things.
inclusive Prayer
Holy Wisdom, Holy Word:
You have camped among us,
in the disorder of our reality.
In Jesus, Son of Wisdom, the Word-made-flesh,
have assumed what we
You have made yours. Let us
able
to embrace our uniqueness,
to honor the particularity of others,
with sincerity, compassion, courage and wisdom.
Amen.
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