Do you ever find yourself looking at the children in your world with wonder? How is it, you may think, that these little beings contain so much life? How is it that they once did not exist, and now they do?
If so, Marlena Graves gets it.
“I have three daughters, and I often consider them in wonder,” Graves writes. “I simply cannot wrap my mind around how whole worlds—my daughters’ lives and identities and futures—are generated from a microscopic, fertilized egg. How is the miracle and mystery of human life possible? God only knows.”
Graves goes on to describe another way that mystery participates in our everyday lives: the mystery of God’s timing.
“Just as I cannot fathom the nature of my daughters’ miraculous existence, I cannot fathom the mysteries of God’s salvation or the whos, whats, wheres, and whys of God’s timing. But I do know that God keeps his promises—in history, to his people, and to individuals. God always shows up. Always.”
Amen to that. May your Christmas season be rich with moments of unbridled joy as you look upon your loved ones, and may your hope in the mystery of God only grow stronger with each passing day.
