The Child is coming! This is Christmas Eve and the light is coming anew. This birth will save us all. And All means all. It is too easy to limit this birthday to Christians but that betrays what God is doing every day in our world, This small child is and always has been the perfect union of Divine and human, not two separate things but one glorious thing, us!
We are all called to union with God, but more so with ourselves. This is the new birth Jesus told Nicodemus about. To once and for all be reborn in ourselves. This is the Divine dance, the true Trinity, the first and ongoing community. And each of us are called to be in community with ourselves. This is the miraculous birth we celebrate. We celebrate our birth anew.
This is the eve of new hope entering the world. And yet this is not new! We should live each day as if it is Christmas morning and we are that newborn baby. We are the lights of the world and the hope of the world. These are dark times in our world with wars, fears, and hopelessness all around. But tomorrow as we celebrate the Child we bring hope back to a weary world that needs it.
Let’s celebrate Christmas day as the newborn lights we all are. Let us be the light in these dark days of winter. Let us spill out that light on each person we touch and do it over and over again. The more light we spill the more light we will be given. Merry Christmas to you.
TMM