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I found this link while researching the backstory of O Little Town of Bethlehem for my weekend sermon on the origin of American Christmas carols. Its from a blog called CrunchyCon that is being shut down on Monday because the author has taken a new job that doesn’t permit partisan publications.

However, his commentary on this very cool video of the vastness of the universe bears repeating going into the new year.

This visual representation illuminates the power of Kierkegaard’s Absolute Paradox (the idea that the infinite could become finite — that the all-powerful and eternal deity could enter temporality as a tiny baby). It is also an illustration of what Mark Shea sees in this holiday celebrating the incarnation of the eternal and infinite God as a poor Jewish child in an insignificant village in a backwater of the Roman Empire.

Kind of puts things into perspective that the things we tend to argue and get hung up on in faith and church really pale when you consider God’s perspective.

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