Yesterday we discussed the mystery that surrounds Jesus’ Birth, but in many ways we only scratched surface of that particular topic.
There are so many more. We know very little about Mary and Joseph and yet here were two people that were given the incredible job of caring for The Messiah. Exactly who were they, what were their character traits, besides the important fact that they needed to be part of the Family of David, why them? There are more questions than answers regarding this couple. We know what they did and this is good, but there is so much more we can never know this side of heaven.
As for the Magi or Wismen or Kings, who exactly were they? Where did they come from? What was it like to follow a star. We know that the stars move, but how did they do this? What was that Journey like? Did they travel together or did they meet somewhere on the way? The tradition of the Church fills in some of this. But it is tradition and no real hard evidence. It boggles the mind when we take into account everything we don’t know. And that is faith.
According to the Bible, faith is believing in things not seen it is hoping for something that will happen in the future. According to The Miracle on Thirty Fourth Street, Faith is believing when common sense tells you not too.
For all of the many of the great scientific minds of today, faith is just not something they can handle. If there is no proof and so it cannot be. There are mysteries and they must have answers, if the answers are not there, the mind has a hard time believing in the things claimed by the one the mysteries surround. This is something that we all have to come to grips with in our lives, do we believe in Jesus and wonder at the mystery. Or do we reject Jesus because we cannot handle the mystery.