God knows how it feels to cry like a baby and die like a criminal.
God knows how it feels to work with rough hands on rougher wood
and walk this earth with calloused feet and taste the sweetness of
precious food shared one last time with parting friends.
God knows a broken heart hurts more than whip or cross or nails or crown.
God knows comfort in a mother’s arms, longing for a father’s love, sadness at a
brother’s loss, strength of a sister’s undying loyalty.
God knows why a heart overflowing with love erupts with anger when people
hurt one another.
God knows the joy of life restored when the dead arise and the lost are found.
God knows all this not by being God alone but because a woman once said yes
and God became one of us.
(Reflection on the Incarnation by Fr. Joseph R. Veneroso, M.M. December 2010)
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