DAILY CONTEMPLATION

January 8, 2026 ~ Kiahk 30, 1742

Note that this, my spoken word, in its own proper nature, is intangible and invisible.
But when it is written down in a book, in a manner of speaking, it takes on a body.
It is then both seen and touched.
So it is with the fleshless, bodiless Word of God.
The Word is neither seen nor described according to His Godhood
but becomes, through His incarnation, subject to both sight and description…
The “generation” [or birth] in the case of Christ is not according to some procession from nonbeing into being.
It is rather a transition [a path, a way] from existing “in the form of God” to the taking on of “the form of a servant.”
Hence His birth was both like ours and above ours.
For to be born “of woman” is like our birth,
but to be born “not of the will of the flesh” or “of man,” but of the Holy Spirit is above ours.
There is here an intimation, a prior announcement of a future birth to be bestowed on us by the Spirit. 
Origen