A Holiday That Has to Happen

The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light

 - Isaiah 9

The War on Christmas.

This is the year that the Left steps back and declaims that, come on you idiotic Christians, there is no war on Christmas!

People just want to be left alone and they don't want you shoving your religion in their faces.

Here we are in the season where the days are shorter, and the nights are longer. It is the season of darkness. If you didn't know any better, the idea that the sun would keep dwindling, day after day, could be terrifying. It gets darker and colder. The green has disappeared. The harvest is finished. Imagine the early generations of humanity, actually believing that their sacrifices and other religious rites are responsible for the return of the sun, and warmth, and spring and summer, year after year!

I'm not sure I buy the theory of Seasonal Affecive Disorder, or "SAD", the condition that vexes depressed people in the stark of the winter.

Just get out! Get outside! Read a book! Put a log on the fire! Get out into the crowds! Go to a party! Listen to great music! God and nature have given us a blessed excuse, to do NOTHING if that's what we want!!

If there were no Jesus, no Bethlehem, no Santa Claus, no Wise Men, no gifts, and lights, and carols, and feasts, the most creative of the atheists would have to invent all of that. And having invented it, they would realize how stupid it would be to go around talking people out of participating.

You see, in the darkest and coldest days of the year, we need light. We need music. We need laughter and joy. Did you catch that? We need these good things. The first day of winter gives us license to celebrate.

I have heard that, on a dark night, it is possible to see a small candle flickering, up to thirty miles off. That can be a lifesaver to a sojourner.

We believers have seen a great light. And it means everything to us.

Even non-believers need to see some light. It too can mean their survival. I hope that, soon, our culture can get back to just letting Christmas be. Yes, just let it be. For even you, Mr. Atheist, need light.