We who walk upon the earth today tend to think of Jesus as someone other, someone who is not truly connected to the human experience. A being who is in many ways not like us.
However, Jesus lived in ordinary world, doing ordinary activities.
An ordinary human man; with a-not-so-ordinary-embodiment — incarnation — with in his skin.
But as extraordinarily divine as this ordinary human was, he lived a totally human life, full of very human ordinary experiences.
He lived in a small, very small, town with his mom, dad and siblings.
He grew up in an ordinary home doing ordinary human tasks.
He learned, from his dad, to use his hands to make things out of wood.
On the first Easter morning that ordinary man gave us an extraordinary gift — the pure fullness of genuine life.
Who died, and yet is now living in another -- inconceivable -- unimaginable realm.
Still speaking to us through His Spirit. Still guiding us; adjusting our thinking and our actions, loving us, forgiving us, accepting us
and never ever forcing us.
This very human Jesus was God in flesh.
He was God’s Word — God’s creative voice — in the flesh of a human man's flesh and blood, with feelings, thoughts and hungers just like you and me.
Today God still comes into the ordinary lives of people to make himself known. People with no particularly talent, no particular status, no hero qualities.
A life full of extraordinary possibilities, now living out loud within you and me.
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