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What does God say at the moment of our birth? I doubt it is possible to know. I am moved, however, to think of what is going on around us. From birth, many things are being said, are being set up for us. We have our parents. Some have only one--some will be passed onto others. We are placed into a world and a country which will one day soon call us to believe in it, to pledge out allegiance to it. Oh, but aren't we born into something much more? We are born into the image of God. Each new person, each old person, an icon of the living presence of God, a spectacle of God's imagination. But we forget this image, and we deny its power and we lose the gift to see the beauty of ourselves and others. God, though speaks us all into existence. We must slow ourselves down and listen, listen to the Word by the hearing of our spirits. We may not hear those first words spoken to us by God as we were brought out the the womb, but God continues to speak and is always calling us to listen.

(Zechariah 12:10-11, 13:1, Psalm 63, Galatians 3:26-29, Luke 9:18-24)