Christmas:
Holy and golden, it is a time to remember the miraculous and simple. Life, in the way it is ordinarily made, is celebrated. Life, in the crazy way that God gave it, is celebrated. What I think is needed this Christmas is for people (myself) to remember that it's real. Jesus took his first breath in a cave. Angels appeared to shepherds; the sign of a King was swaddling cloth; hay and animals and a husband witnessing the birth of God/a human. The love of a God that makes no sense. A love that brings confusion and hope, rejection and light, the question what and the word wow. A love that disarms and binds. Christmas is about Christ, and therefore redemption, relationship, and love (emblems of another thing called Family). Christmas through the ages creates worship, journeys, and wonder. Christmas through the ages brings a desire for family, rich food, and warmth. Christmas is the face of the event of love: miraculous, peaceful, and ancient.
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