My dear father-in-law left behind a number of 8mm film coils with takes of family events from a couple of decades. When we watched it a few years back, it was hours on end of family-members waving to the camera.
It occurred to me that I had come into a family belonging to the "wavers' land".
When the Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, was on an official visit to USA, President Obama made a speech and joked with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s productions of “slow TV”. I was only able to watch a few glimpses of "The Coastal Steamer minute by minute". It contained a lot of beautiful scenery and even more people waving. So, I have finally realized that I actually live in the "wavers’ land". We wave when we go apart and we wave when we are not close enough for a hug. Therefore, waving in many ways symbolises distance.
Distance was the characteristic of the relationship between God and man before Jesus came. God was a distant figure. Worship was a kind of “waving” from a distance.
By becoming man, God transformed his relationship with men completely. He went from distance to presence. The Christmas mystery is God’s presence in the lives of people (2).
'Manna' for today:
I belong in God's presence----------------------------------------------------
(1) The idea with this song is to give answers that can be acted out while dancing around the tree. The first example is “I belong to the wavers’ land, because everyone who can wave their hand, they belong to the wavers’ land.”
(2) But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Eph 2:13
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