I'LL BE JUST FINE
"What part of Christmas do you love best? The presents? The caroling? The children's Christmas pageant? Christmas dinner with family?
My favorite seasonal accouterment may be our Christmas tree--fragrant & piney, glowing with colored lights, hung with beloved keepsake ornaments. It's so beautiful that I could (and sometimes do) sit & stare at it for hours.
Deep down, though, I know that the tree is not the point. With or without the tree, I'll be just fine.Whether or not I celebrate Christmas at all, I'll be just fine.
No matter what comes, I'll be just fine, because Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, 'came down from heaven & was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary & was made man.' Knit together in His mother's womb, our Lord became a full-fledged member of the human race--flesh & blood, mind & body, eyelashes & fingernails--for our salvation . . . May the eternal Word who 'became flesh & dwelt among us' (John 1:4) dwell in you richly, at Christmas time & always."
--Rachel, Bomberger, The Lutheran Witness (Dec. 2018)
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