Wonderings...

I wonder if we had told people at this time...several days before the birth of Jesus...that God was about to change the world, would they have listened?

I wonder if we had told them that God's salvation would come through a carpenter's son nobody, would they have rejoiced?

I wonder if we had told them that the willingness to be with all people--pure or unclean, Jewish or Gentile, saint or sinner--to offer all the presence of God's love, would they have accepted?

I wonder if we had told them that everything would change, that even their most revered institutions would have a new face and a new focus, that the only thing that would hold steady through all time would be the love of God for God's people, would they have let go?

God wants to change our world.  God will come to work through powerless, unexpected people, God will include everyone, especially those we don't expect should be included.  God will restructure and refocus, revamp and remake all our institutions.  Will we go with God?

I wonder...