Your Body is Holy

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The portion of John’s Gospel that we just read is probably not the first place our minds go when we think of the Christmas story. Where is the manger? The star? The shepherds? Where is the Baby Jesus, for that matter? This story, full of words and light, glory and grace, might seem abstract compared to the very specific details that we heard in the Gospel according to Luke on Christmas Day. And yet, John is the one who offers us this verse that is, in so many ways, the key to our Christian faith: “And the Word became flesh and lived among us.”

 

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