God Doesn’t Create Junk
The deepest longings of your heart, however mingled with sin and selfishness they may be, have their origins in God’s grand design, His intentions, His purposes. We don’t have to invent our own meaning. We don’t have to craft our own identities based on what we want, because what we want most is given to us as a gift.
The Whole Christ for the Whole You
Why did Jesus come as a human being? Couldn’t he have redeemed us some other way? The incarnation of the Son of God has many implications for us, but perhaps the most important is that he came to redeem our entire being, not just the invisible parts. On this First Sunday of Christmas, Fr. Ben Williams reminds us that we don’t have to escape our physical existence; even our bodies will be redeemed.