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The Season is Here

November 25th, 2009 by Dan

If you had not noticed, our stores are screaming at us that Christmas is here. Tomorrow is Black Friday in the U.S.- the start of the Christmas shopping rush. Which reminds me that the days of anticipation have begun.

My question is: what are we anticipating? Food and family certainly; and these are good things. But they are not ultimate things. The ultimate reason is that a carpenter’s Son turned out to be more than a carpenter. He made the whole world new. The great poet Swinburne once wrote:
“Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath”

I could not disagree more. I would say this: Thou hast come, o child- King, and the world has grown new at thy death.’

May you enjoy the ultimate reason for Christmas, and find some still small moments of quiet joy in remembering that there was One who became a child, and then a criminal, that we could become kings and queens.