The Christmas Season

Reflections on the Infancy Narrative of Matthew from The Little Blue Book

December 11, 2010
By: Julie McCallum,
Senior Staff

The Christmas season is not a time of unmixed joy. There is also sadness, pain. It will be lonely for those who have just lost someone they loved. For some others, it is always lonely.

This season sends us deep within our soul - a mixture of happy and sad thoughts, thanksgiving for what we have, sometimes musings of what might have been.

Don't resist the mixture. It's already there in the feast itself. We're celebrating the birth of the one who suffered, died and rose from the dead to open the door of life for us.

We're celebrating the birth of the one who came to reach out to those who need him.

That's what he came to do.
And that's what he still does.