Known

Mary said to the angel: how will this be, since I am a virgin? (literally, I do not know a man) (Luke 1:34)

Mary had never known a man. I love that old-school phrase, because it carries in within it an acknowledgement of the togetherness that is kerneled up in oneness: knowing, and being known.

God knows us.

He knows us.

We are not alone.

He came to us.

Immanuel, God with us.

Merry Christmas friends. Xo.