• I woke up cozy in my bed thinking about the expression "too much of a good thing." Goodness knows why. Is it a biblical principle?
• When God sent the coming king as the most vulnerable of humans (a baby), he knew there was great risk of the child being killed or harmed, as it had to be almost fully entrusted to other humans for a decade or more. Jesus' life makes me think more about predestination. God wouldn't have sent Jesus then and there and that way if he didn't know he'd make it through life to be crucified. So, God either knew that others' lives wouldn't harm Jesus, or else he kept his "angels" or protection around Jesus.
• I'm reading the Chronicles of Narnia. (However, I don't plan to see the movie, probably because it is marketed to mainstream Christians, and because I am too skeptical I'd be disappointed anyway.) It reiterates this idea coming up more and more that God is everything we don't expect. At Christmas, who would expect the King of Kings to come as a completely helpless baby lodged in a barn and a food trough, with unwed parents? (Well, except that the prophesies said as much.) Why be the opposite of what we expect? On the one hand, it seems cruel, like God is making it more difficult for us to find him. And on the other, it sets him completely apart from the world. Or, the world has gone the opposite way from him.