This month, we're featuring Christmas memories from your favourite Canadian Christian authors.
Time to confess: I’ve never been a fan of Christmas as it is so often “celebrated”. Too often it has meant ... endless baking for the already overfed, added to the intellectual torture of finding gifts for people who have everything they need (and don’t really want what I will finally end up giving them either). And - this is worst of all - vicious fights between revelers who got along while kept apart, but Christmas festivities unfortunately drove them together.
Christ Child, where ARE you? I have so often wondered.
But one oasis has been timeless - the Christmas Eve midnight church service. Anticipating the bells of midnight, we are transported far, far from commercial harassment and social stress. There we worship, and acknowledge once more the impossible redemption made possible - and by a baby too!
Actually, only God would think of sending a baby rather than an invincible army of angels.
I come back home and light all the Advent candles and think, yes, he came to redeem this VERY situation we struggle with. And he will - if we let him.
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Denyse Leary, is co-author with Mario Beauregard of "The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul."
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