A young man gives up a year's salary to fund scholarships for children who lost their parents in the Oklahoma City bombing and the word becomes flesh. A woman calls her neighbor every morning to make sure she is okay, and the word becomes flesh. We have a member planning to go to South America in an effort to learn and help another country and the word will become flesh. In the same way, all these things also allow those who are doing good to see how the Word becomes flesh through those who are being helped. It is usually the case that we receive more of a blessing from helping someone than those do who are helped.
All parties are both givers and receivers.
We do more than announce the good news of God's presence in our midst. We become that good news as the Word becomes flesh in and through us. This morning we still have a Christmas message of hope for our lives if we are willing to hear it. God doesn't want us to just survive, God wants us to thrive. Thriving has to do with learning to live knowing God is in control, God is looking out for us, God loves us by sending us his son.