A Sacrifice Forever

June and I had a lovely time at the 'Little Stone Church' Christmas eve service in Chef Boutonne. This was the first such service since it's renovation by Steve and Liz: Their web-blog. My few photos.

Steve explaining a dog's life

Whilst it was all fun, enjoyable, and great to worship together with new people, I also enjoyed a new understanding of an aspect of the Christmas story I had not seen before.
Perhaps it helps that Steve has an engineering background, he explains things in ways I understand! He explained that in order to understand something bigger than ourselves, it is sometimes helpful to step back and think in terms that start smaller than our experience. So for instance, to try and consider 4 dimensional space, one could first consider what it is like to be a 2 dimensional being, and then try and consider what that 2 dimensional being would think of our 3 dimensional space. Well it made sense to me anyway.
So then he went on to explain Jesus' view of the Christmas story, that is the Greater God becoming the lesser man.
He postulated us approaching a planet of dogs. And considered that our father wanted to sort out the planet. The plan was for us to go there, but as a dog. Once there the other dogs would finally tear us apart, but never fear, our father would rescue us. And then we would have eternal life- but as a dog!!!
I am not sure I would want to be a dog forever; not having known what it was to be human. But Jesus, having known what it was to be God, has accepted being a man forever.
Now that's amazing.