JOEL HOLLIER : Courage Like a Scared Young Girl
Courage Like a Scared Young Girl As we go into Advent, we ponder the wonder of the incarnation - the perplexing, mystifying, divine reality that God would take on flesh. The eternal, bound by proteins and enzymes. The glory of God subjected to hiccups. And all the glory of the incarnation pivots on a young girl, in a land occupied by an oppressive force, in a backwater part of Galilee, who is betrothed to a man who just happens to have, somewhere in his lineage, a distant king. This girl would go
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