"Impossible Possibilities"

Luke 1:26-49
Isaiah 40:1-11

A voice cries out in the wilderness. "Every valley shall be lifted up. Every mountain and hill made low. Uneven ground shall become level."

"How will this be?  Since I am a virgin?" Mary asked the angel.
The angel Gabriel answered, "Even Elizabeth is going to have a child in her old age. For no word from God will ever fail."

Impossible circumstances. Impossible situations.  And yet, with God's love all things are possible. Babies can be born to barren women.  Mountains can be made low. Justice can reign even when all hope is lost.  Peace can once again be restored.

In A Charlie Brown Christmas,  no one likes the fact that Charlie Brown is ruining all their fun by trying to actually do his job and direct a play.  So they send him on a mission. Find a spectacularly commercial, shiny Christmas tree and bring it back.  He instead follows his heart and picks the most unlikely of all trees, a small scruffy pine that won't even hold an ornament.

Ugh. The tree seems to be a complete failure. Charlie Brown cries out to the group asking if there is anyone who knows what Christmas is all about. Linus then recites Luke 2 and Charlie Brown goes into the night air, tiny tree in hand, and remembers the words of the gospel. His tree, however, is still a disaster. In fact, Charlie thinks his decorations have killed the tree.

But of course, when LOVE enters the picture, and PEACE, and HOPE... well, then impossible things become possible.  The intersection of love and hope in this story create a peace and joy that Charlie Brown never knew existed.

The intersection of love, peace, hope, and joy also come to Elizabeth and her cousin Mary as they (a generation apart in age) carry their babies who are born to be prophets unlike any the world has ever seen.  Mary sings that her soul magnifies the Lord and Elizabeth feels the baby John leap inside her womb.  All things are possible with God. And with love, and peace, and hope, and joy.

When have you experienced the impossible becoming possible?  What is your dream for the impossible becoming possible here and now? What gives you hope that it can indeed come to fruition? Email me or comment below.