Having now completed the 12 Days of Christmas, we move to the brief moment in the church calendar when we remember Jesus' life between infancy and adulthood. In some ways, it's hard not to make the jump, given that there is only one brief story in the Bible about Jesus during his boyhood -- the story of Jesus discussing things with religious teachers in the Temple.
But remembering these several years in Jesus' life, with a bit of our own childlike curiosity, can remind us of the Jesus humanity and the completeness of the incarnation. Ed Moore, an ordained Methodist minister, asks an illuminating question in a recent article, "Did Jesus Wear His Halo to School?"
How might you ask this 6-year-old's question? Maybe even more important, how might you ask the 6-year-old's question? What was Jesus -- flesh and blood Jesus -- really like when he was a child, and how can we better understand God through Jesus' humanity?
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