The reason for the white page is the un-represent able experience of the shepherds. In my mind the little use of color best represents the glory that was seen.
I feel envy over shepherds whose eyes have seen the Glory of heaven, yet it produces in me such a hope. To know that what the shepherds experience was a Holy and reserved honor, the fact that the incarnation was a onetime event, and God in His love for the meek and lowly invited shepherds to the birth of His Son. God still does this today (1 Corinthians 1:26-31) yet he gives us more (John 1:9-13). God adopts us as sons and daughters. The high honor of the shepherds was to see what had been proclaimed to Adam and Eve. The seed of the woman was finally here.
Merry Christmas
Nino
It's bogglesome. Because in John 20:29 Christ says to Thomas:
ReplyDelete“Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
And so we are perhaps more blessed than they were. In a way, I suppose, but most days, I'd rather just see. It would be easier that way.