“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.” – Walt Whitman
The advent of our Savior is truly a great adventure. “Advent” is the root word for adventure, giving the impression of the arrival or appearance of something risky and wondrous. The Advent we celebrate has a wild and risky edge to it, because our God has always chosen wildness as one of His trademarks. Listen …
The Christmas story, the account of the arrival of our Savior as a baby, has a wildness to it. Colored with scandal, flavored with risk, it has elements that are wild, bold, over the edge. Our God appears as a helpless baby in a scene that could be accurately described as a wild frontier socially, …
