First Incarnation

The first Incarnation of God did not happen in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. That is just the moment when it became human and personal, and many people began to take divine embodiment as a serious possibility. 

The initial Incarnation actually happened around 14 billion years ago with “The Big Bang.” That is what we now call the moment when God decided to materialize and self-expose, at least in this universe. 

The first “idea” in the mind of God was to make Divine Formlessness into physical form, so that everything visible is a further revelation of what has been going on secretly inside of God from all eternity. Love always outpours! God spoke the Eternal Blueprint/Idea called Christ, “and so it was!” (Genesis 1:9).

Adapted from Richard Rohr, “Creation as the Body of God,” Radical Grace, vol. 23, no. 2 (Center for Action and Contemplation: 2010), 3, 22.

Readers of my blog contributions know I’m a huge fan of Father Richard Rohr (so is Deacon Bob Lemay).  The above is part of today’s Rohr Daily Meditation.   I share it here.

Deacon David Pierce