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Meditations for merchant mariners working in America and abroad from the maritime chaplains at the Seamen's Church Institute.
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Every person wants to be understood and known by others—especially by the people closest to us. Every person wants a spouse, children, or employer to know what it is like to be him or her for a day. How many mariners, for example, have said, “If only the folks in the shore side office could be out here on the water with us just for a day, then they would understand what we really go through.”
The message of Christmas is not a philosophy or a doctrine. The message of Christmas is that the folks from the shore side office came out to ride the water with us. The message of Christmas is a person—a real, live, flesh-and-blood human being—Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Mary. The message of Christmas is that God became one of us. The message of Christmas is that God became one of us in order to make all things right between us and God and between each other.
“In his immeasurable love, he became what we are in order to make us what he is.” — St. Irenaeus
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