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In these few short verses, Mark has given us an overview of the entire story of Jesus, and Jesus has not yet spoken a single word.

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When you walk by God’s shining radiance, then you shall be radiant at what you see. The meaning of this glorious feast, Epiphany, literally means “to shine upon.”

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If we have lived long at all, we know that no one can love us like family, and no one can hurt us like family. “Grief is the price we pay for love.”

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God appears in, with, under, and as flesh, with a human body, a body made from the same stardust that makes up all other bodies. 

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We too are asked to make a dwelling place for God; to put skin on God, making Christ present and living among us.

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I  learned this story from John Shea, who received it as a gift from an Hasidic Storyteller Reuven Gold. It is sometimes attributed to "unknown origin." This is M. Scott Peck’s version of the “The Rabbi’s Gift” as he tells it in the prologue of “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace."

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“It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes: yet, with all that, God Himself gloried in becoming a member of the human race. (Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander)

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Mark's Gospel is just the beginning. After we have heard it, the Gospel continues in us. We won’t need pen and ink; we write the Gospel with our lives. In welcoming Christ among us, every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Christ-child, all food and drink become a sacrament. And God’s many faces are now everywhere.

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Words and Music by Joe Dailey, ©copyright 1988

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Advent means to come. We imagine that we are waiting for the coming of God into the world; but it is God who is waiting for us to incarnate divine love.