Psalm 85:10

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;

            righteousness and peace will kiss each other.

Both the Bethlehem manger and the Calvary cross are sign of salvation for all of us.  But so is the life lived between, in all the ways Jesus made flesh those words of love, faithfulness, righteousness, and peace.  Moreover, for Christians, salvation is not just believing in Jesus, but embodying what he embodied in this world.  When steadfast love and faithfulness meet in our lives, when righteousness and peace embrace in daily lives God’s salvation is near at hand.

Today make this be your prayer:

As I live between the manger and the cross, may the Word made flesh dwell in my heart.  Amen.