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A little reflection on Christmas Eve
12/24/2020 5:27:10 AM

It is Christmas Eve. Over my lifetime, I have come to cherish this day because I am reminded every Christmas Eve that no matter how bleak the current situation, there is hope.

Do you have Christmas traditions? My family has always opened their gifts on Christmas Day. December 25th is always full of activity. When my children were young, they would wake my wife and me up early in the morning. They wanted to open presents as soon as they got out of bed. Then we ate a very large breakfast before we cleaned the place up and I started putting together the latest gadgets. We played games, watched Christmas movies until midway through the afternoon, then my wife would bring out a feast and we would eat again. Even as my children are now adults, they still come around for the tradition of Christmas Day.

Christmas Eve is different than Christmas Day is for me. It certainly is filled with tradition, but it is not as focused on one activity after the other as much as it is about contemplating my standing in the universe. First of all, no matter how good or bad the year has been, Christmas Eve helps me gain a proper perspective. It helps me not get too high or too low. It recalibrates my thinking. Secondly, it reminds me that there are things much bigger than me that have impacted my life in a very positive way - things that I have not earned or learned in an advanced degree or purchased in a store for myself. These things are free and they are life changing. Thirdly, Christmas Eve reminds me that there is good at work around me and that good can overcome any bleak disposition, no matter how dark the night and how deep the despair. Light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot overcome it.

You can call me a supreme optimist and claim that I have my Christmas-colored glasses on. I’m okay with that label, but I would encourage you to stop and give it a try before you discard Christmas Eve as just a day before the big event. I would urge you to take some time to slow down and listen to that which stirs your heart. For me, that includes gathering with a group of people at my church and singing Christmas carols, lighting candles and allowing our hearts to be moved (that is a choice for most of us.) Even if you don’t normally take the time to contemplate much of anything at all, I would coax you to do so this Christmas Eve.

This has been quite a year, hasn’t it? Could you use a little hope in the midst of it? Why not allow a little light to brighten a dark place inside you. Take it from a Christmas Eve optimist, it has worked wonders inside me.

Merry Christmas!

 

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