On
the ninth day of Christmas, something from Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945):
For the great and powerful of this world, there
are only two places in which their courage fails them, of which they are afraid
deep down in their souls, from which they shy away. These are the manger and
the cross of Jesus Christ. No powerful person dares to approach the manger, and
this even includes King Herod. For this is where thrones shake, the mighty
fall, the prominent perish, because God is with the lowly. Here the rich come
to nothing, because God is with the poor and hungry, but the rich and satisfied
he sends away empty. Before Mary, the maid, before the manger of Christ, before
God in lowliness, the powerful come to naught; they have no right, no hope;
they are judged.
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