God so loved the world
that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him might not perish
but might have eternal life.
For God sent his Son into the world,
not to condemn the world,
but that the world might be saved through him.
(John 3:16-17)
"The world" usually has a negative meaning in John's Gospel; I've seen it translated as "the system." Not so much in these verses. God loves the world so much that God wants to be part of it. The Son is the way God does this. Incarnation (enfleshment) saves us. Divine and human are united. The other world and this world are knitted together. The Son enables us to surrender in love to the Divine in us and around us.
The picture is last Tuesday's sunrise sky from my bed when I awoke.
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