Soon after my daughter Lila was born, I had the realization:
Every baby is Baby Jesus.
We all come into this world as avatars of inviolate, primordial innocence.
Incarnations of pure openness and love.
If we look deeply within ourselves at any point in our lives, we can discover that babyhood’s original innocence, openness, and love never left us…
It’s always there, waiting beneath all our layers of conditioning and wounding…
A Home, waiting to embrace us and wash away our burdens.
Gazing in stillness upon one’s own baby pictures is a powerful practice for reconnecting to our own stainless purity and innocence.
How we see our newborn children, is how God sees all of us at all times.
Flawlessly perfect and forever unsullied.
Every baby is Baby Jesus.
And every being is Jesus, when seen through the eyes of Love.
Though the confusion and heartbreak and indoctrination of this world may warp a being’s expression…
Their essence is pure, untarnished innocence.
Your essence is pure, untarnished innocence.
Every baby is Baby Jesus.
And every being is a child of God.
Remember your own inviolable essence, and allow it to clean you.
Allow your life to be held and illuminated in the light of its indiscriminate love.
Allow this love to wash away your pain and melt the frozen layers over your heart.
Allow this love to shine forth from you, bathing all who meet you in its radiance.
In this way, you shall plant within others a seed of remembrance.
Remembrance of their own innocence—their own unblemished essence.
As these seeds blossom, we can all begin to remember together that…
Every baby is Baby Jesus.
Every being is a child of God.
We are One.
And we are Home.
Home never left us.
It was there all along.
Holding us, nourishing us, invisibly supporting us.
Waiting for us to remember.
Merry Christmas,
JB
P.S. Christmas gifts, from me to you.
Jordan Bates sees the Baby Jesus in you. Join Infinity Mentorship and The Astonishing Miracle of Existence, if your soul is ready to take the direct joyful path Home.