Wonder and the Nativity ~ A post from Habou.

During this Christmas season I finally neared the end of John Saward’s Cradle of Redeeming Love. I started it Christmas 2010 and usually get to read a few pages or a chapter per week. This book was a cherished birthday gift from Nick.

I was delighted when reading the section he entitled The Metaphysics of the Manger.

He writes:

“The Christmas mystery inspires wonder not only at the God who humbled Himself to assume human childhood, but also at the human childhood elevated through its assumption by God.” 

How wonderful is that?

Another quote that I love dearly should remind us of all children and their reactions to their world. Reactions which surprise and delight us.

It reminds us to call upon that wonder which we surely had as little children.

Pippo amid all the Christmas wrappings enjoying a gift card, while ignoring the toys he received.

Saward says:

“ His [the child’s] mind is receptive of the glorious reality of the world, and he is amazed that things are, even before he knows exactly what they are. That is why he tends to be captivated by anything--for example, by the wrapping of his Christmas presents rather than by the toys they contain. The child in the garden knows that the grass is, but his wonder at this apparently ordinary thing seems to indicate that he is surprised that it should be at all. ... Now from such childlike amazement at being, at the extraordinariness of the ordinary, flows the whole of metaphysics and natural theology.”

He just loves looking at the cards. 

Mt 8:2-4 “And Jesus called a little child to him, set him in their midst, and said, “Amen I say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” 

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