The Word Made Flesh

“The Incarnation should not be considered in the light of the Virgin Birth so much as in the light of the fact that, like us, the Lord had an earthly Mother, a Mother of flesh and blood who nourished him from her body and fed him with her milk. That he did not live above us but among us, on the same level of the flesh as we do. As a body among other bodies, a man among men. He himself was the Word, and he remained the Word. He communicated himself to us in the flesh because he was flesh like us, and spiritually because he was the Word, which was in the beginning with God. Being flesh and spirit simultaneously, he reaches our spirit through our bodies and spiritually soaks our bodies through and through, so that what is spirit in us and what is his spirit in us may return to the Father. If he had not lived among us, our bodies would have returned to dust. And what would have become of our spirit? Everything would fail and fall, both body and spirit. But as it is, everything will rise again; the body participates in the Resurrection because the Son has a body; the spirit participates because it is in communion with the Spirit of the Lord.”
~Adrienne von Speyr