As part of my life of Thanksliving, I continue with another celebratory idea. Why not celebrate Christmas every day?
I noticed yesterday while I did some late shopping on Christmas Eve, stocking the cupboards yet again, running some errands, visiting the card store, etc., that people were unusually friendly, patient, kind, smiling, and accommodating. There’s something special about the good will of Christmas. I saw no, “Bah Humbug!”
When we think globally what that might look like, I’m hoping there is truly “good will toward men” as the angels sang about that first Christmas. I am truly expecting that because of that Christmas event, it is possible to have Peace on Earth. I am recognizing again that in that act of a Baby’s entrance into our world, we are changed forever for the better.
Imagine. Mary looked on the Face of God. The disciples walked with God incarnate. The scribes and gospel writers and epistle writers did not write their own story; even I can do that! They wrote the unbelievable events surrounding the Son of God! And we, centuries later, can know God personally because Christmas happened in Bethlehem.
But that’s only part of the reason for the season.
We who live mortal lives, full of sin’s corruption, even at our best, even at our kindest, even when we’re doing good things, can never attain levels of purity. We are destitute without Christmas.
So, we need Christmas. We need the intervention of God directly into our lives. And, because of our utter depravity, we need the reason for the season. We need a God who loves us so much that he sent His Divine Son to earth to live among us, and to die for us, so that we can grasp a vision of that perfect Love given for us.
Each morning we celebrate Christmas and Easter. Each evening we rejoice that God loves us enough to invest His Son in our future. Talk about a life insurance policy!
Thank you God for giving us the gift of grace, the gift that gives us hope each day, and gives us Your eternal presence when we leave this life and join our grateful souls to Yours forever.
Thank you for Christmas.
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