The Spirit of Christmas

I love Christmas. I always have, especially when I was little because I figured it was probably a good thing to have your birthday five days after baby Jesus was born. I still love Christmas because I see it as a time that everyone is turning and reaching out for what matters in our lives; families, relationships and thankful hearts. It is also a time when we plan for perfection; the perfect dinner, the perfect party, the perfect present. We strive for the perfect representation of festive joy which is so hard to translate because we are also perfectly human. We stumble into the manger, to see a infant Savior sleeping peacefully and realize this is the most perfect image our eyes have ever come upon. God has already given the perfect present and in my abandonment of perfection I can now focus on being a giver of kindness and compassion. I can give whatever I hold in my hands and raise them to heaven when they are empty. It is no mistake that our new year begins after Jesus’s birth. There is a renewed promise in the air, a palpable expectation of everything hope is capable of creating.

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