Adam's podcast

Back in 1990, Bette Middler sang:

from a distance we all have enough / and no one is in need
there are no guns, no bombs and no disease / no hungry mouths to feed
from a distance, we are instruments / marching in a common band
playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace
they're the songs of every man

God is watching us from a distance

So is that where God is? Watching us from a distance?

- from a distance, where disease becomes invisible, poverty un-seeable...

- from a distance, where the rich blend with the poor...

- from a distance, where humankind appears united it a common dance...

- from a distance, where God might view the world through rose colored glasses and remain detached and unmoved by events of this small globe?

Is that where God is? At a distance?

No, for that is the Good news of Christmas.

While human religion and human efforts could never reach him, God reached to us. At Christmas He sent Immanuel – which means God with Us.

The eternal God stepped into time. The incorruptible God took on flesh and bone. The immortal God became mortal that He might die for us. The invisible God became visible, limited, human.

Immanuel – God with Us.

God reached to us that first Christmas. However, none of us ever expected that the hand of the Almighty God would reach to us in the tiny, delicate, fragile hand of a newborn baby.

But within that tender baby's reach we see the very hand of God and we learn the truth that God is with us - Immanuel.