Two days before Christmas. One of the gifts I ordered came shipped with new grill guts that I had to buy. Can we just say, Amazon, that shipping crystal glasses with grill guts leaves a funny jingling sound in the box.
I say this because I have nothing to say about the scripture. Even with a "seeing" prompt, it's all weird. Psalm 50 is a nice picture of God's kingdom. Jeremiah 31 is the same thing. Galatians is Paul's riff on the law, which I think, perhaps, he wrote two days before Christmas when he had a million things on his mind and his editor was on vacation. His verbal gymnastics make no sense to me there. And then the gospel reading is the genealogy in Matthew.
And God must still be asleep, because despite a prayer for illumination, I don't see anything.
So, I will do what all practicers of the faith do at many points in their journey. I will have a second cup of coffee, start my day, say my prayers, and know that seeing will come another time, another place. I have the wonderings from these small puzzle pieces of scripture that fit together in a larger story, but I'll have to shake the box of shards for awhile...
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