Well, Merry Christmas.

Thank you for joining me for giving 15.

Today's will be short.

Just a Christmas meditation.

The title of the post is Christmas and the cross.

To incarnate, from which we get the word incarnation means to embody in flesh, invest with bodily form.

It's from a Latin word meaning to make into flesh.

Have you ever wondered what was going through Christ's mind before Holy Spirit transformed him into a microscopic seed and carried him to the womb of a young girl?

The son of God was about to become human.

Did he wonder how I would feel to no longer believe? The Son of God was about to become human.

Did he wonder how I would feel to no longer be omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent?

Did he wonder how physical pain would feel?

Hunger, thirst, weariness, cold, heartache, loss. Christ knew he would have to swim in amniotic fluids,

fight his way through a birth canal, be fed, be bathed. Learn to crawl. Develop balance and walking skills.

Form words. Grow. Gain knowledge. For the first time, he would experience sleep, hunger, pain, scrapes, blisters, calluses. He would enter the realm of time.

He would bleed. He was breakable. One has to wonder if Jesus ever reconsidered the plan.

Since he was the lamb slain before we were ever created, Revelation 13-8, I don't suppose he did.

Yet, just before Holy Spirit held him, began the transformation, there must have been at least an emotional.

Here we go.

I'm about to be human.

And then he was.

There was no turning back. Numerous questions come to mind as I consider Christ's humanness. As a child, when did the first awareness of who he was begin to set in?

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