God rest you merry everyone!
These days, you cannot go into the mall, the grocery stores, virtually anywhere, without hearing Christmas songs and carols and Yuletide hymns. For many people, these songs and choruses bring a sense of joy and expectation as they look toward the celebrations, the family time, the parties and the presents. They foster a sense of bonhomie, a good-natured geniality, and perhaps a desire to share with those around them.
Then there are those who belong to different faith families which don’t celebrate Christmas, and who might find the whole idea troubling yet have to listen to these same songs in these same places. Not to mention the folk who look at the monetization of the season with horror and regret.
This God was with a people enslaved, exiled, beaten down; this God led these people to their Promised Land and returned them to it when it was taken from them; this God was with a pregnant teenager wondering what had become of her life, was with the new mom and her family fleeing the threat of death; this God is with the refugees and victims of suffering, isolation and loneliness in this generation. God is with us. God is with you.
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