End the Year in Hope

As the calendar year comes to an end, the Roman Catholic Lectionary offers another look at the Incarnation through the Gospel of John. Some discussion of this point of view leads to the emphasis of the Person of Jesus becoming the expression of the Divine in our reality. The Christmas message of Emmanuel or “God is with us” is the thought with which we leave the old year and decade and begin the New Year with the hope that this Promise of our inheritance as children of God will be discovered as the indwelling Spirit that is light and life.