My former college, Wycliffe Hall, kindly sent out an Advent devotional this year. On Christmas Day, reflecting on the Gospel reading from John chapter 1, the principal wrote this about "the Word became flesh". I liked it, and tried to remember it through the day. 
“If God could be God when one cell small
in the womb of Mary, then we can be human when we are constrained. When we feel
cramped. When we feel trapped. When we feel that life is not giving us the
scope to be ourselves. Limited circumstances did not stop God from being God,
and limited circumstances will not stop us from being human, or from being
ourselves – or (Luke 1:44) from giving joy to others” (Dr Mike Lloyd).I hope you like it too. Enjoy a fully human New Year - whatever your circumstances!
