Dec 30 - Sixth Day of Christmas

Legend tells us that The Twelve Days of Christmas

was a secret catechism during times of persecution.

For these twelve days let’s focus on twelve teachings:

The Sixth Day of Christmas

Six Geese a Laying

 

Laying an egg is a creative act. It’s designed to produce life.

 

The six-geese-a-laying represent history’s most creative active. As their highest goal, the six days of creation were designed, indeed, to produce life.

 

As a Christmas telling of creation, listen today to John 1.

 

To make sense, first however, of the opening lines and imagery, we need to know that John theologically describes Jesus as “the Word,” the logos, who “became flesh and lived among us … as of a father’s only son.”

 

What does that mean?

 

In simple terms, we use our words to explain our mind, our thoughts, our desires, our will. The Father sent the Son to reveal in words and actions the Father’s heart, will, hopes, and actions. Indeed, as verse 18 in this chapter says, “No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.”

 

With that explanation of Jesus-the-Wprd, listen today to the Christmas telling of Creation story from John 1. And according to the image of six-geese-a-laying, listen for both Jesus’ coming and the six days of creation as history’s most creative act, designed to produce life.

 

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

 

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light.

9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

 

14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

 

In Christ’s Love,

a guy who gives thanks

that you listen occasionally

to my logos – my heart.

Happy New Year!