Points of Light

Once, the true Light became concentrated into a point of energy.

Then it exploded into smaller points, all with a trace of the true Light.

In time, creatures evolved to the point of recognizing that trace of light, but still fail to trust the warmth of that light.

So, the Light began to shine like a lighthouse beam, shooting through the darkness to one man and one woman, then to a tribe of outcasts, liberated by the heat of that Light, and initiated into a covenant with the Source of that Light, and called to share that light with all the tribes of Earth.

Then, in the right time, that Light was concentrated by the Holy Spirit into a microscopic point inside a teenager’s womb.

And the Light, no less God than before, became no less human than us.

And to those who entrust themselves to him, he who became like us, is making us like him, born again, and daily renewed by that same Holy Spirit, in Greek, pneuma, the divine Spirit and breath, which makes the Father and the Son as close to us as the air that flows within us and without us.

Those in the dark cannot comprehend the light that shines through us and around us. In their bitter incomprehension, they may try to overcome it.

But, as children of the Source of that infinite Light, though we die, yet shall we live, for we have seen and know how to live as the incarnate point of light lived, without bitterness or despair, but with grace and truth.

The Rev. David Kendrick

December 25th, 2024,

The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ