Merry Christmas!

It's Christmas Day.

I just love the feel of Christmas. It's so joyful and so reverent at the same time. I mean, we're celebrating the birth of the Savior. It goes without saying that Christmas is much more than presents, decorations, and cookie-giving. It's even more than spending time with family and friends. I've been thinking about Christmas a bit over the last couple days. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors of all time and he expresses some of those thoughts perfectly in what he writes.

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"It was a sledge, and it was reindeer with bells on their harness. But they were far bigger than the Witch's reindeer, and they were not white but brown. And on the sledge sat a person whom everyone knew the moment they set eyes on him. He was a huge man in a bright red rob (bright as hollyberries) with a hood that had fur inside it and a great white beard that fell like a foamy waterfall over his chest. Everyone knew him because, though you see people of his sort only in Narnia, you see pictures of them and hear them talked about even in our world--the world on this side of the wardrobe door. But when you really see them in Narnia it is rather different. Some of the pictures of Father Christmas in our world make him look only funny and jolly. But now that the children actually stood looking at him they didn't find it quite like that. He was so big, and so glad, and so real, that they all became quite still. They felt very glad, but also solemn." The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

"The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God." Mere Christianity.

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." God in the Dock

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The first quote captures the joy and magic of Christmas. The second reveals how the birth of Christ has literally changed the world forever. And the third is a reminder of how all the little miracles and blessings we receive are really a retelling of the biggest, greatest miracle of all--the very one we're celebrating today. Merry Christmas!