New Years Meditation on Incarnation

When God became human, he did not become the cosmic human or the generic human. Instead he became a particular human, just one among many, and will be one among many for eternity, as all of us can be as well. This is not absorption into Brahman as in Hinduism or into a cosmic, universal self as in Buddhism. It makes the particular sacred.  We cannot know ourselves in isolation, but only in relationship to others, specific, individual others, and to know the one and only God, we need to obtain access through the one and only man who is God.