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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

This Christmas Wish is ON-TIME.

I'm sending you a Christmas wish full of thoughts. Thoughts of good, theologically sound, thematically relevant things. Like Christmas itself, for instance. A miracle, some say. I say: "you said it." The true meaning of Christmas can sometimes get lost in the shuffle, but it isn't diminished for all of the foreground spectacle and calloo callay and goings on. It is too sublime, too transcendent - and even when we're less aware of it than we should be, still it casts its warm glow over the proceedings.

We were meant to rejoice. This world is a gift to us, even as Christ is God's gift to the world. This Christmas season, let the herald angels hearken unto our song - as we give rising voice to a ringing hymn of praise that will one day swamp the toy boats of tyrants and dictators, murderers and fanatics, and unite all nations in joy, in justice, tranquil beneath the heavens under the supreme peace and goodwill of God.

Praying for that, and for you, and for yours, in this time of abundant trials and abundant blessings. May you have more than your share of the latter!

Sincerely.

No, really. I mean it.

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