It must be Christmas*

It must be Christmas because: a) everyone keeps saying happy holiday to me; and, b) it keeps snowing, and snowing, and snowing.

And school is over at last. Time for rest, time for peace. Last night was the longest night of the year; the night in which we sleep, deeply, to prepare, to purify, to be ready for the coming of innocence into our hearts. The solstice is upon us indeed.

Thus this is the moment of the coming of light. From this moment forward the light increases, not just in real terms in the daylight, but in our hearts and souls as well, as the warmth of this season, nurtured with God’s love, grows into fulfillment of God’s kingdom, in and through us. What more can I say?

It is not anybody’s generic “holiday.” It is going to be Christmas.

God just wants all of us to be one. Decorate, light, give, rejoice.

*4 Advent (Isaiah 7:10-16; Psalm 80: 1-7, 16-18; Romans 1:1-7; Matthew 1:18-25)

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