In The Shelter of Each Other, We Will Live
It is christmas season, for me the most normal part of the year. I like the way the west celebrates christmas, they make it so real. Where I am right now, not so much. It has almost become just another holiday for me. This year, however, is a Star Wars year for me, so the Rise of Skywalker should brighten it up a bit. My main concern is this song I found. It’s almost a decade old, and a line from the chorus is the title of this post.
That statement is, coincidentally, and in a weird way, the most “christmassy” thing I’ve heard in a song in a while. Christmas, the season where we celebrate God taking on flesh, is also the season where we enter that mystery. Perhaps another paragraph will drive this point home and help me end this post:
The fulfillment of Christ’s prayer in John 17: 21 that “that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me” began in the past before those words were spoken, on the very first Christmas, when he was united to humanity, and therefore to us, and in so doing united us to each other. He reveals prayer not as a request that God has not acted on yet, not as a command, or a magic word, but as the very act of aligning one’s self to what God has already done from eternity and is bringing into time’s view. Prayer is the indwelling of God himself, for He is the answer to all true prayers. Prayer is God made flesh, whose summit and head is Christ. Prayer is Christmas, and His prayer is for us to be united; to be, in the words of the song, “in the shelter of each other“, it is there “we will live“.
Merry Christmas in advance