[Speed Gibson,
Sunday December 25, 2005 at 5:44pm]
It's the most wonderful time of the year
Christmas was established to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and remains very much so. But it's fair to say that it has become siginificantly more than that. As Michael Medved reported in one of his classic historical accounts broadast this past week, much of what we celebrate was part of a Roman festival that the early Christians adopted as their own. Indeed, there is Biblical, historical, and astronomical evidence that Christ was born around mid-April, not December 25, and probably not in the year 1 A.D., either. Other cultures and customs have found their way into our current traditions.
It's a bustling few weeks of shopping, decorating, and entertaining, often at too fast a pace it seems. But Christmas Day finally comes, and the whole world seems to take a breath. Peace on the Earth, good will toward men, it truly happens I think. It is "the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" as the Andy Williams classic goes. Despite the chaos and the distractions, God has the last word.
It's a bustling few weeks of shopping, decorating, and entertaining, often at too fast a pace it seems. But Christmas Day finally comes, and the whole world seems to take a breath. Peace on the Earth, good will toward men, it truly happens I think. It is "the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" as the Andy Williams classic goes. Despite the chaos and the distractions, God has the last word.