Christmas Enables Us to “See” Our Salvation
The question often comes up: “But what then is Christmas?” In a multicultural, hypersensitive, relativistic society, the question itself is obnoxious to many people. There is no “joy to the world” for them. Not only do they not want to know what Christmas is, but they also do not want to be reminded that Christmas is, in fact, something fundamental to each human person, regardless of whether that person knows it or likes it.
Christmas commemorates a birthday. A birthday is the day on which a living child is born and continues life outside the mother’s womb. Once breathing on his or her own, this same child can expect to develop to full manhood or womanhood in twenty or thirty years. This full life will continue with its own drama unto death, which can happen at any point along the way but sometimes lasts into the traditional “four score years and ten” or beyond. It is during this span of life that each person decides what he or she will be β forever.
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