| I will join | myself to them in the blinking wandering eyes of the unknowing infant, whose tiny little fingers curl up into little fists, with paper thin finger nails that catch and tear when they are caught in the threads of the blanket. |
| I will join | myself to the faces of those who rest by the way and sit in the sun so bright that they must shut their eyes, their vision filled with the blind crimson glow, their faces warmed and weathered. |
| I will join | myself to to those who are so weary they cannot take another step, so burdened that their stomachs churn with dread. |
| I will join | myself to those who dance and sing at weddings, rejoicing with those who share out of their need a feast for friends and loved ones. |
| I will join | myself to the unanswerable questions, the times of doubt and hurt, the times of feeling alone and lost. |
| I will join | myself forever to those who are born and who grow and learn and live and love and die. |
| I will join | my nature to theirs in such a permanent way that the union will never come undone. Even death will only make my union with them stronger and my rising from the dead in their flesh that I have made my own, will only temper the link that I have forged with them forever. |
| I will join | myself to them by becoming one of them forever. The chains of my Incarnation will be so strong that they shall stand the strain of pulling all my sons and daughters into life. |
| I will join | myself to them in such a way that Deity and Humanity will be forever wound together within me - inseparable in who I am as a Person. |
| I will join | myself to them in such an intimate way that I will save them from their sins, their tragic waywardness, their congenital corruption. |
| I will join | myself to their stupid senseless choices, their tragic failures, their heartlessness to one another, their greed and wickedness, their folly for which eternity could not contain enough regret. |
| I will join | myself to them in these things with such a strong grip that I will be able to pull them down with me into my death and all will die and all their sins I will cast down into the depths of death. |
| I will join | myself to them, retaining such a grip on them as persons that I will be able to retrieve them out of death, yet leave their sin in the grave. |
| I will join | myself to them and with my resurrection, pull them into my everlasting love and life. |
| I will join | myself to them forever; I will join myself to them in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. |
| I will join | myself to them in faithfulness, and they will know me, the LORD. |
| I will join | myself to them in such a way that they will call me Jesus, for I shall save them from their sins. |
| I will join | myself to them and they will call me, "Emmanuel, God with us." |
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