The Mystery of God -- Word, Light, Flesh
John 1:1-18 Christmas 1 December 26, 2021 St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Williamsburg, Virginia In the beginning was the Word. I love these verses from the gospel of John – which take us deeply into the mystery that is God. We cannot fully understand mystery. We can only enter in to what we can only begin to conceive of. In the beginning was the Word. Can you even conceive of that – “in the beginning” – before there was anything? When there was only God? In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Another element of the mystery: that God is a communication event! “The Word was God.”...