\u00a022<\/sup>And the\u00a0Lord\u00a0God said, \u201cThe man has now become like one of us,\u00a0knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life\u00a0and eat, and live forever.\u201d\u00a023\u00a0<\/sup>So the\u00a0Lord\u00a0God banished him from the Garden of Eden\u00a0to work the ground\u00a0from which he had been taken.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\nPHILIPPIANS 2:9-11<\/strong><\/h2>\n 9\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore\u00a0God has\u00a0highly exalted him and bestowed on him\u00a0the name that is above every name,\u00a010\u00a0<\/sup>so that at the name of Jesus\u00a0every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,\u00a011\u00a0<\/sup>and\u00a0every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is\u00a0Lord, to the glory of God the Father.<\/strong><\/h2>\nW.B. Yeats, the great Irish poet, was a visionary. His writing changed the way people viewed the world, so much so that W.H. Auden claimed he had written “some of the most beautiful poetry” of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\nHe was also a mystic who dabble in the occult and prescribed to his own unique view of time. He believed that history ran on a 2,000 year cycle, tending toward chaos before it broke open and started anew. In his poem, \u201cThe Second Coming,\u201d he wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/p>\n
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cSurely some revelation is at hand;<\/p>\n
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n
His vision of an ever-darkening world is terrifying. To him the world is a Tilt-a-Whirl \u2014we are spinning and spinning but also stuck in a never-ending cycle. In Yeat\u2019s world there is no getting off the ride.<\/p>\n
Christmas is the reminder that we are not jammed up. We are not headed toward anarchy. We are headed toward Eden. The world and us in it will be made anew. Adam sinned the sin that started the clock and baby Jesus was born to right the wrong and get us back on the eternal track.<\/p>\n
Monday is the day we\u2019ve counted down on our Advent calendars. Monday is the end of the devotions you\u2019ve been reading and the listing in the Gospels of the lineage of Jesus. Monday is a checking off of all those prophecies of renewal and grace. It marks our ushering into eternity in such a gloriously hopeful and undeserved way that we should all wake up with a song on our lips.<\/p>\n
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We won\u2019t of course. We will be tired from hosting guests or traveling or wrapping presents late into the night. We will feel the stiffness of the years and smell our own bad breath and wish the coffee were already made, because we\u2019re still on this timeline and subject to all the temporal shifts of mood and mind.<\/p>\n
God gets it.<\/p>\n
He knows the eternal you is excited. Your soul is singing with the Holy Spirit and swaying to the music, even if your body is otherwise preoccupied. Even your distraction is another testament to God\u2019s grace and Jesus\u2019 benevolence.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll hop into eternity soon enough, but for now it takes family and friends and hymns and nativity scenes and breakfast casseroles and Advent countdowns to get us into the spirit of things. I think God likes the pomp and circumstance.<\/p>\n
May Christmas day be full of all the things that make your soul sing.<\/p>\n
Sunday Thoughts Link Up!<\/strong><\/h1>\nIt’s time for another Sunday Thoughts Link-Up! I know there are many out there with wisdom that could encourage all of us. As long as it’s faith-based, I’d love for you to join up and then read and comment on what others have shared. Please also leave a comment here. Think of this as a Sunday morning community group that comes to you. And grab the button if you like…<\/strong><\/h3>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mom-gene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-Thoughts-Button.jpeg?w=1170\" "\\"The")
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9\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore\u00a0God has\u00a0highly exalted him and bestowed on him\u00a0the name that is above every name,\u00a010\u00a0<\/sup>so that at the name of Jesus\u00a0every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,\u00a011\u00a0<\/sup>and\u00a0every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is\u00a0Lord, to the glory of God the Father.<\/strong><\/h2>\nW.B. Yeats, the great Irish poet, was a visionary. His writing changed the way people viewed the world, so much so that W.H. Auden claimed he had written “some of the most beautiful poetry” of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\nHe was also a mystic who dabble in the occult and prescribed to his own unique view of time. He believed that history ran on a 2,000 year cycle, tending toward chaos before it broke open and started anew. In his poem, \u201cThe Second Coming,\u201d he wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/p>\n
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cSurely some revelation is at hand;<\/p>\n
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n
His vision of an ever-darkening world is terrifying. To him the world is a Tilt-a-Whirl \u2014we are spinning and spinning but also stuck in a never-ending cycle. In Yeat\u2019s world there is no getting off the ride.<\/p>\n
Christmas is the reminder that we are not jammed up. We are not headed toward anarchy. We are headed toward Eden. The world and us in it will be made anew. Adam sinned the sin that started the clock and baby Jesus was born to right the wrong and get us back on the eternal track.<\/p>\n
Monday is the day we\u2019ve counted down on our Advent calendars. Monday is the end of the devotions you\u2019ve been reading and the listing in the Gospels of the lineage of Jesus. Monday is a checking off of all those prophecies of renewal and grace. It marks our ushering into eternity in such a gloriously hopeful and undeserved way that we should all wake up with a song on our lips.<\/p>\n
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We won\u2019t of course. We will be tired from hosting guests or traveling or wrapping presents late into the night. We will feel the stiffness of the years and smell our own bad breath and wish the coffee were already made, because we\u2019re still on this timeline and subject to all the temporal shifts of mood and mind.<\/p>\n
God gets it.<\/p>\n
He knows the eternal you is excited. Your soul is singing with the Holy Spirit and swaying to the music, even if your body is otherwise preoccupied. Even your distraction is another testament to God\u2019s grace and Jesus\u2019 benevolence.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll hop into eternity soon enough, but for now it takes family and friends and hymns and nativity scenes and breakfast casseroles and Advent countdowns to get us into the spirit of things. I think God likes the pomp and circumstance.<\/p>\n
May Christmas day be full of all the things that make your soul sing.<\/p>\n
Sunday Thoughts Link Up!<\/strong><\/h1>\nIt’s time for another Sunday Thoughts Link-Up! I know there are many out there with wisdom that could encourage all of us. As long as it’s faith-based, I’d love for you to join up and then read and comment on what others have shared. Please also leave a comment here. Think of this as a Sunday morning community group that comes to you. And grab the button if you like…<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
He was also a mystic who dabble in the occult and prescribed to his own unique view of time. He believed that history ran on a 2,000 year cycle, tending toward chaos before it broke open and started anew. In his poem, \u201cThe Second Coming,\u201d he wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/p>\n
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cSurely some revelation is at hand;<\/p>\n
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n
His vision of an ever-darkening world is terrifying. To him the world is a Tilt-a-Whirl \u2014we are spinning and spinning but also stuck in a never-ending cycle. In Yeat\u2019s world there is no getting off the ride.<\/p>\n
Christmas is the reminder that we are not jammed up. We are not headed toward anarchy. We are headed toward Eden. The world and us in it will be made anew. Adam sinned the sin that started the clock and baby Jesus was born to right the wrong and get us back on the eternal track.<\/p>\n
Monday is the day we\u2019ve counted down on our Advent calendars. Monday is the end of the devotions you\u2019ve been reading and the listing in the Gospels of the lineage of Jesus. Monday is a checking off of all those prophecies of renewal and grace. It marks our ushering into eternity in such a gloriously hopeful and undeserved way that we should all wake up with a song on our lips.<\/p>\n
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We won\u2019t of course. We will be tired from hosting guests or traveling or wrapping presents late into the night. We will feel the stiffness of the years and smell our own bad breath and wish the coffee were already made, because we\u2019re still on this timeline and subject to all the temporal shifts of mood and mind.<\/p>\n
God gets it.<\/p>\n
He knows the eternal you is excited. Your soul is singing with the Holy Spirit and swaying to the music, even if your body is otherwise preoccupied. Even your distraction is another testament to God\u2019s grace and Jesus\u2019 benevolence.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll hop into eternity soon enough, but for now it takes family and friends and hymns and nativity scenes and breakfast casseroles and Advent countdowns to get us into the spirit of things. I think God likes the pomp and circumstance.<\/p>\n
May Christmas day be full of all the things that make your soul sing.<\/p>\n
Sunday Thoughts Link Up!<\/strong><\/h1>\nIt’s time for another Sunday Thoughts Link-Up! I know there are many out there with wisdom that could encourage all of us. As long as it’s faith-based, I’d love for you to join up and then read and comment on what others have shared. Please also leave a comment here. Think of this as a Sunday morning community group that comes to you. And grab the button if you like…<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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