quote for today

merry christmas everyone! i'll be in new hampshire and probably unable to blog for about a week. i meant to finish that quote by C.S. Lewis about Xmas vs. Christmas...but of course i forgot it today. so, here you have a killer christmas thought by Bonhoeffer. "The Coming of Jesus in Our Midst" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer "It is very remarkable that we face the thought that God is coming so calmly, whereas previously peoples trembled at the day of God, whereas the world fell into trembling when Jesus Christ walked over the earth. That is why we find it so strange when we see the marks of God in the world so often together with the marks of human suffering, with the marks of the cross on Golgotha. "We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God's coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us. The coming of God is truly not only glad tidings, but first of all frightening news for everyone who has a conscience."