12/16/16

Christmas + Aleppo

I looked at the latest pictures from Aleppo on instagram. I knew it would be hard; i expected all the weeping that came with it. Fathers carrying little girls with frilly pants and purple boots, just like Kayl n and Penny. A little boy Link's age clutching his father. Mothers holding babies. The book of Isaiah in real life. We can weep with them, and pray for thrm, and give generously to them, and protest loudly those governments that lend a hand to the slaughter. That's not enough. I can be a mom who loves justice and mercy and hope my kids grow up strongly feeling the same (oh, i want to be! Sorry for the yelling today, guys). I suppose, though, that it's no coincidence that this is happening now, when "O come, o come, Emmanuel" is already on our lips. Because the survivors of Aleppo (Oh, God, let there be more than would seem possible) and I and some shepherds and wise men all have the same need: God with us. One who does not abandon us, but becomes pleased as man with men to dwell, "veiled in flesh the God-head see." It's not being trite; it's the most humbling and glorious thing i've ever heard. And that is why, mixed in with grief and tears and many prayers, the best thing i can do is keep reading Isaiah...and Matthew and Luke...and sing those carols again and again.  And late though it is (too late, because we've been sick for weeks and i am bone-weary), i'm gonna listen to Pentatonix sing "Mary, Did You Know?" Because an ambulance came our neighbor across the street. Because i still remember that little baby I lost in utero. And because i remember my sins, which seem especially obvious this time of year. (It's so much easier to give oresents than to constantly give of myself to sweet, wild, messy, cranky kids.) And because Aleppo.

"He rules the world with truth & grace!
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness
And wonders of his love."

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