Jan 8, 2018
We all tend to categorize and organize our lives so that they are easier to understand, easier to control. We put our stuff in boxes and totes. We put other people in boxes and categories based on stereotypes and assumptions. We even try to do it with God. We keep God in a box of our own making; we like God in heaven and waiting for us when we die, rather than messing with us in the here and now. At the baptism of Jesus, God is revealed in Christ as one who will not submit to life in a box we have made. Instead, God rends the heavens, breaks down the boxes and destroys the barriers that keep God at bay. Christ invites us to join him in the water that we might be… just be.