[Propertalk] Quotes - Luke 2:41-52, 2 Christmas, Jan. 3 - Part 2

[Joe Parrish]

God, in the words of the Irish Dominican poet, Paul Murray, loves us so much that if we should cease to exist, he would die of sadness. The Christmas stories reveal to us that God loved Her human children so much that He took on human form so that he could show us how to live and how to die, even walking with us down to the valley of death itself.  

http://www.agreeley.com/hom09/dec27.htm

Andrew M. Greeley, 2009
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In a culture that calls for clarity and conclusive ways of understanding God's good news in Christ, we offer a text this day that ends in pondering and lack of understanding. The conclusion of the story does not nail things down. 

http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?lect_date=12/27/2009#

Ginger Barfield
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This is the only passage in the Bible that tells of Jesus' boyhood. 

http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/cxms1m.shtml

Chris Haslam 
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While 1 Samuel 3 does not tell us the age at which Samuel began to prophesy, Josephus says that it was at age 12. 
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Verse 49: "must": The Greek word is dei. Dei is used 18 times in Luke and 22 times in Acts. 

Verse 49: "be in my Father's house": The Greek is difficult. Other possible translations are be involved in my Father's affairs and be among those belonging to my Father.

http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/cxms1l.shtml

Chris Haslam 
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It is also worth noting that Luke gives a central role to temple authorities as teachers, reflecting his view of the centrality of the temple and its importance. Just as 2:39 repeats that Mary and Joseph were obeying biblical Law, so now Jesus engages in learning in the context of biblical Law. Jesus has not come, according to Luke, to demolish the tradition, but to uphold it and expand it.

http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader/LkChristmas1.htm

William Loader
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It was the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet, who first alerted me to the fact that, "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."

Over the past twenty five years I have learnt the truth of this saying as I have not tried to be my sons', controller, dictator, policeman, moralist, publicist nor garbage disposal unit.

In fact learning to be, not the perfect parent, just the Good Enough Parent, is what taught me so much about God's parenting.

http://thelisteninghermit.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/learning-from-our-children-christmas-1c/

Peter Woods, 2009
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I'll be focusing on the importance of the Incarnation, and of Jesus' own blindness to lack of comprehension of his own divinity.  And the struggle that his parents and those around him had with his burgeoning role as messiah.

http://blog.tonyj.net/2009/12/young-jesus-in-the-temple/

Tony Jones, 2009
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For a while, as our faith is still in its infancy or childhood, we may hold on to Jesus and treasure him in our hearts.
But as our faith in Jesus grows, we are be willing to "lose" him and release him to the world and let the world find the "lost" Jesus.

As he was born in our hearts, we should let him "go" so that he might be born in other people's hearts as well, for although he belongs to us, he also belongs to the world.

http://www.saintsinsincity.org/?p=2334

Edward Granadosin
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