Saturday, December 09, 2006

December 9, 2006

Good Morning! Christmas is just over 2 weeks away; are you ready for it? I realize that by this time we are often overwhelmed by the commercial aspect of Christmas. The sales, promotions, secular songs, pageants, and parades take their toll, and if you’re like me you might start to feel just a little unclean. Perhaps that is why I yearn so much for a fresh snowfall on Christmas Eve. A clean slate, if you will, to purify the world around us. There is only one way to fight this seasonal depressing of the spirit and that is to focus on why we celebrate Christmas in the first place, Jesus. The world has taken St. Nicholas and made a cartoon character out of him, but the birth of our Lord stands firm as the first great event of Jesus’ time upon this earth in human form. Angels announced it, a star in the heavens pointed to it, and prophecies predicted it hundreds and even thousands of years before it happened. We get to enjoy a strong reminder of it each and every year. Sometimes we say that Jesus’ death on the cross was the final event, but that isn’t quite right. We can say that it was the final event of his first life, but He rose again and will return to us one day. Do you need a refreshing change from the commercialism of this season? Find it in the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ in Bethlehem and in our heart. The love of our Lord outshines every other light that we see.

Praise God for Christmas!

Bucky

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