We are nearing the end of Advent 2025. The Church looks once again to the birth of the most important person ever to step onto our planet. In the Living Christ, hope is restored, healing arises, and grace abounds. The gap between birth and death, dark and light, broken trust and forgiveness, lost and found, is bridged. Jesus takes up the ripped or cut ends of time and pulls them back together, putting us on track - aligning us once more to the Holy Way. The Christmas call is to take up one's staff and get back on the Good Road from wherever we have been lured, strayed, or fallen off.
The means to do this is easy. Look into the man this small baby becomes. With him, our calendars and how we mark time changed. A spiritual awakening saw the worldwide spread of a new religion. While we, humans, botched it -- as we always have -- mingling in power, greed, fear, and corruption, the steady-handed, non-anxious presence of Jesus' life revealed a life-giving Beatitude that, were it to catch hold in each of us, there truly could be global peace, equity, and justice for all.
So, as we sing in many a candlelight service on Christmas Eve, the familiar strains of Silent Night, or O Come, O Come Emmanuel, or Hark the Herald Angels Sing, let us each recommit a sacred space within our hearts to follow this wee boy in a manager striving to live his message as our own lives.
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