The Fullness of God

St. John of Kronstadt was a nineteenth-century Russia Orthodox priest who lived during a time when alcoholism was taking over Russia.  While other priests stayed inside their churches, waiting for the hurting and broken to come to them for help, John of Kronstadt went out into the streets to find the hurting and broken to offer help.  The story goes that when he found people passed out in alleys and gutters he would bend down, embrace them in his arm, and tell them, “This is beneath your dignity.  You were meant to house the fullness of God.”

The Incarnation of Christ, God’s fullness locking arms with man’s fullness in a humanity-altering embrace, one that would change the history of the world forever.  God embraced the fullness of flesh so one day (a day like today, maybe) we as fleshly humans could embrace the fullness of God Himself.   

He was finally with us.  He's still here, and we were meant to house His fullness.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Embrace His fullness, share his peace on earth, good will toward men, and His glory will shine like it was meant to this Christmas.