experience of being born!
when you and i were born we came into a world of which we have no sense of ownership – we don’t even begin to have the language to say – ‘this is my world’ – although ‘mine’ is a word most of us pick up in our very early days . . . yet how easily we say that ‘jesus is born into ‘our’ world’ . . . where do we learn this way of speaking about things? that the message of christmas is that god has come to us to be with us in ‘our world’ as if god was somewhere else? – perhaps lived 