Just last night I rewatched the first of the Narnia movies based on C.S. Lewis' beloved series. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the White Witch seeks to rule Narnia. As Mr. Tumnus describes to Lucy, it is this pretending queen who makes it always winter, never Christmas.
What a relief that we have Christmas to celebrate in winter! I think most of us tolerate the cold weather and frozen landscape because Christmas twinkles on the horizon. Don't you find the chill of December more bearable than, say, mid February? The joy of anticipating the holiday and all it means keeps us warm, in a way.
We live in what often seems a winter-numbed world, full of gray circumstances, icy perils and cold-hearted people. But like Christmas in December, Christ in our hearts fills us with hope. God kept his word to send the world a savior. We celebrate His arrival in the dead of winter, a blaze of joy in a most dark hour. Because of Christmas, we can live the other 364 days carrying the flame of fulfilled-promise that God will also do everything else he said he would do, including one day bring us into his glorious eternity.
Lost souls operate in an always winter, never Christmas world. We have to live like Christmas is coming. Because it is, dear ones. It is.
2 comments:
Great posts, Amy! I'm excited about this. And excited about the fact that Christmas IS coming!
I agree with Kali! I'm looking forward to each day's post!
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