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I will keep up with Les Mis Letters this year. I will keep up with Les Mis Letters this year. I will keep up with Les Mis Letters this year. I will keep up with Les Mis Letters this year. I will keep up with Les Mis Letters this year. I will keep up with Les Mis Letters this year. I will keep up with Les Mis Letters this year.

“And there are also many other things Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books which were written” -John 21:25

Almost none of Jesus’s teen years where mentioned in the Bible. Imagine all the normal family things He, Mary, and Joseph did during that time.

I really would like to know more about His teen years. A lot of teenagers like to think that Christianity is not for them, it is too restrictive when we kind of forget even Jesus was a teen. What if He had friends who He liked to play around with during the afternoon; Friends He regularly visited. And didn’t rabbis teach children meaning imagine Jesus sitting down for a lesson about His own Word (That’s like listening to someone reading a book you read). What if women and men looked at Jesus and was like “what a nice young man. He will grow up to be a great man someday”.

So many feels. Just wow.

this is so nice. 

Let me take some moments. I’m crying.

I love this. :)

there’s a beautiful quote from the Early Church Father Gregory Nanziazen about exactly this that I just LOVE: “And perhaps He goes to sleep, in order that He may bless sleep also; perhaps He is tired that He may hallow weariness also; perhaps He weeps that He may make tears blessed.” Christ simply had to have these ordinary days and ways; that was how one God enveloped the duties pagans assigned to entire pantheons. Christ knew sleep and He was the God of Sleep; He weeps to become God of Tears; He talks and preaches to become God of Rhetoric; He tells parables to become God of Storytelling; He learns carpentry to be God of Trees (and Joseph taught Him just the right way to fashion wood to His will that when He approaches the fig tree He does not have to think twice about what to say). He dies and is God of Death; He rises and is God of Resurrection; He lives and is God of Life; He is human and so becomes God of Humanity.

Merry Christmas. Exactly what I needed to read today. Thank you.

I have one more thought to add: Jesus understands our lives perfectly because he atoned for our sins, but also because he lived life as a human. I believe that to be his followers we ought to think of him often. I often try to think of his mircles, but I can also think about him throughout the day as I experience ordinary things. When I am eagerly awaiting a delicious meal to finish cooking, I can pause to think that there were probably meals that Christ himself felt excited to eat. When I feel cold water on my hands, feel soft fabric on my skin, or feel the tight, happy embrace of a friend, I should remember that Jesus, the Lord of all, also partook of this human experience. He did it so that he could save us. He did it not so that he could be like us, but so that we can learn to be like him.