
(Notes and reading at the end.)
God is with us no matter what. Another name for Jesus is Immanuel, from the Greek rendering of two Hebrew words, `immanu, "with us," and 'el, "God."
The 12th-century Cistercian monk Aelred of Rievaulx said it well.
God is with us in our nature, with us in his grace;
He* is with us in our weakness, w…
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