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Numbers 6:22-27.  We are blessed by God!  God speaks well of us and, when God speaks well of us, all is well, for what God says is, is.  God’s blessing brings down goodness on us.

Luke 2:16-21.  God sends down his message through an angel to the shepherds of the night watch, “a savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord.” “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”  “All who heard it were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds.  And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.”  “He was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.”  Galatians 4:4-7.  “God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.”  “So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then also an heir, through God.”  The mother who brought divinity into humanity through the will of God brings humanity to share in divinity.  God, through God’s will, became a human son of a human mother, enabling us to become sons and daughters of God.