A fortified inner self not only enables a person to offer love properly but to receive love properly, even from God, to give without strings, to receive without suspicion.
In baptism we are joined to Christ and we now live as he leads, and celebrate the freedom of others to do so also.
The Trinitarian stories resemble the dreaming of Australia’s Aborigines, for both imagine the divine as a community of being in which we are invited to participate, and so find our true being.
Praise and prayer enable us to find our true identify in Christ, and it is as we find out who we are that we find our true strength.
There is an illuminating contrast between the response of the pagan magi and the response of the biblical scholars, and between the kingship of Jesus and the kingship of Herod.