Christmas
Today we celebrate God's stepping into Time. In this extraordinary integration, He enters a Middle Eastern family and places Himself in their care, the finite and the Infinite in a simple domestic human scene.
Always responsible to Him, humans became responsible for Him.
Imagine that. This is a moment of almost Nordic complexity.
The message of Christianity--that of forgiveness, love, family, and community of man--so distilled down in the symbols of this holiday, is so optimistic and hopeful one is always struck by the homicidal, nihilistic, despairing, and similarly faith-based philosophies that have risen as alternative explanations of man's condition.
It is hard to believe an active evil force is not present to influence it.
Merry Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI presume that I never told you my merry Xmas story.
Bob Pasquarelli and were doing oil paints in grade school. My painting was a failure His looked Like a world famous artist would hold it in awe. Remember we were taught by the Sisters of Mercy. I thought the nun was going to beat the hell of me.the sisters attacked from the rest sneaking like a Japanese Wrestler. When she attacked, she beat Pasky. His picture had a magnificent painting of jolly old Saint Nick. Unfortunately, Pasky titled his work. “Merry Xmas he was beaten for taking the Christ out of Christmas, then I was beaten for laughing,