Christmas is almost upon us and for quite some time we have been exchanging gracious greetings and wishes for a joyful and spiritually fruitful celebration of the coming of God. As we are further buried in the many activities that make us busy in this time of the year, let us all remember that God came in the quietness of the night in that small town named Bethlehem. No fuss, no media, no VIP’s, no paparazzis, no big celebration….. He came small, weak and helpless – yes that’s how the God who is all powerful and all knowing came. He came this way to teach us one thing – that we don’t need elaborate methods to get into contact with Him as we can find Him in the ordinary circumstances of our lives like the shepherds on that fateful night.
May this Christmas season allow us to remember the most humble of all events in the history of our faith. May we learn to strip ourselves with many of our self-sufficiency and comfort in exchange for learning the lesson of the Incarnation – that God wants to meet us right where we are. And so with Christ, the everyday circumstances of our lives become occasions of divine revelation and encounter…we see him every day through all the people that He sends our way….we meet Him in the Eucharist where He feeds us so we can be more and more like Him…we meet Him in the confessional where He touches us and heals us. Yes, everyday can truly be a Christmas day.
I would like to thank all of you from my heart for allowing me and my family to work with you on the common mission that the Lord has given us as witnesses to his truth. I wish all of you the joy that God wanted to bestow upon us through the coming of our Lord
A blessed Christmas to you all!
No comments:
Post a Comment