Music:
Gabriels Message, Salt of The Sound
Simon Wester, Dear Gravity 

As a teenager growing up in Calgary in the 90’s, most days I would travel home from school on city transit. My High school was an inner-city school and we lived on the outskirts of the city.  Travelling by two busses and a train, my daily journey would last about an hour and a half. Quite often, on those journeys home, I would ask God if he would like me to speak to anyone. I had numerous fascinating conversations with various people that would often last the entire route and lead to some deep and meaningful connections.
Little did I know, that in those little moments of trying my best to listen to the Holy Spirit, I was playing my part in being a God-bearer. In today’s Christmas story, we meet THE God-Bearer of the Christmas story, Mary.
It was through a young and poor Jewish maiden named Mary living in the backwater Galilean village of Nazareth during the Roman occupation of the first century that the Word of God, took on flesh and became God and Man.
In Christian theology, we call this event the Incarnation and Mary is known as the Theotokos—the God-bearer.
The Incarnation of Christ through the one who bore God is one of the most sacred confessions and sublime mysteries of Christian faith.
It’s the story of how through the cooperation of the Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit the Divine-Eternal became a human. And it begins with the Annunciation—the Announcement.
In the sixth month of her relative Elizabeth’s pregnancy, the angel Gabriel came to Nazareth to tell an engaged, but not yet married, virgin that she will conceive and give birth to a son named Jesus and that he will be the long-awaited Messiah whose kingdom will have no end.
When Mary questioned the angel saying, “How can this be? I do not know a man?”, the angel simply responded, “The Holy Spirit.” This is the enduring pattern by which God brings redemptive newness into the world. How? The Holy Spirit.
Mary as the mother of Christ is the entirely unique Theotokos. But on another level, Mary is the universal archetype for all who yield to the Holy Spirit and say with the Virgin, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be unto me according to your word.”
As a teenager on the bus ride home from my innercity school I was learning how to say yes to the Holy Spirit, O became a lesser theotokos through whom God can bring something holy into the world.
This Christmas we see the partnership between the trinity and humanity come to an uttermost peak.  God, coming to this world as a human, brought into this world by a human who simply said yes to what the Holy of the Holy Spirit asked of this young lady from Galilee.

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