Incarnation

I watched the Dark Knight with Joash and May.

I am constantly amazed at the ability of certain actors who seems to have such ease and and skills in taking on different roles in different movies or even in the same movie. Maybe that's why they are actors. The really good actors actually clothed themselves with the personality of the character that they are portraying. The way they communicate and express themselves particularly in their speaking or not speaking reveals the depth in which they have enfleshed or have incarnated themselves in that character.

I observe that one of the greatest difficulty in our spiritual formation or transformation is in the way we communicate, especially in the midst of the people that we live with.For years we have developed a certain style of talking and communicating. At work or in our worshipping community we are more conscious about how we carry ourselves: one because we need to keep our job and two we probably only meet with them once a week. So we tend to be nicer, more courteous and polite.

But within our family we often get stuck with a certain culture of communicating that has evolved through the years...whether between spouses or parents and children.For any one who desires a much more healthy and happy family life together we ought to make greater effort in noticing and changing our style of communicating within our family.

We are not trying to be great actors when we make decision to enflesh ourselves with the personality and character of Jesus Christ. John the Apostle observed that " The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we behold His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH." John 1:14.

What a challenge it is to be able to speak the Truth in the spirit of Grace. To be able to clothe ourselves with this divine Son who came and walk among us as one of us.