Room for Christ

Link: Room for Christ at inward/outward. by Dorothy Day.

In Christ’s human life, there were always a few who made up for the neglect of the crowd. The shepherds did it; their hurrying to the crib atoned for the people who would flee from Christ. The wise men did it; their journey across the world made up for those who refused to stir one hand’s breadth from the routine of their lives to go to Christ. Even the gifts the wise men brought have in themselves an obscure recompense and atonement for what would follow later in this Child’s life. For they brought gold, the king’s emblem, to make up for the crown of thorns that he would wear; they offered incense, the symbol of praise, to make up for the mockery and the spitting; they gave him myrrh, to heal and soothe, and he was wounded from head to foot and no one bathed his wounds.

We can do it too, exactly as they did. We are not born too late. We do it by seeing Christ and serving Christ in friends and strangers, in everyone we come in contact with.

HT: Wes Roberts

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Comments

[Jennifer L. Griffith]

"We do it by seeing Christ and serving Christ in friends and strangers, in everyone we come in contact with."

Amen, sister! I pray your Christmas was blessed.

[Anna]

Great thoughts!

[Ashley]

Your blog is so inspiring and... Christ-centered. I love it.