Currents of Faith: Open and Unfolding Reflections

Experience is the basic reality for process theologians and experience is that which they seek in scripture. Here we have the father, mother, newborn child, shepherds, angel, a multitude of angels, and flocks of sheep. One may wish to add the cow and donkey sharing their home with the family. Many Christmas messages have been created by entering the experiences of those gathered. Yet this nativity scene was probably a metaphor, an event which never happened but a story which expresses a powerful truth, created by a first century Christian community. We may then seek the historical experiences of the authors, pondering, praying, and seeking inspiration and illumination. They creatively struggle to proclaim from their worldview the new reality initiated by Jesus. They found: God graces the least of the least, the lowest of the low, the shepherds! ~ Adrienne and Robert Brizee