With all this nonsense going around about 'putting Christ back into Christmas' (as if Christ was some kind of religious substance that was being drained from the holiday -- and which the religious should most fervently reinsert to the mix), I was touched today by a reminder of what the birth of Jesus was and is really about.
From a post by Augustus Meriwether:
"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people." (Luke 2:10)All of life, all of creation, all men and women are nourished, reconciled, enlivened and recreated by the incarnation, crucifixion and resurrection of God in Christ Jesus the infant, the man, the glorified Lord. It is not restricted to Jews, to Calvinists, to Roman Catholics, to Orthodox Russians, to Christians - but includes the whole of creation. All animals, even. All life. And nothing and no-one shall be 'unclean' or outside of his love. Gehenna (hell) is a state of the psyche from which we are freed (saved) by our conscious faith in this all-loving, all-embracing God, who lay for us as a vulnerable baby in an animal-feed trough, not only for the best and the least of us, but for all creation. That means you too. This is why it's called 'Good News', and not 'Alright For Some News'.
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