tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298303.post7787962725284633130..comments2022-04-04T19:08:11.473-07:00Comments on Opera Buffo: No words in the writing desertWendy Wagner;http://www.blogger.com/profile/16341499181581331264noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298303.post-53104381583649559242008-01-04T14:29:00.000-08:002008-01-04T14:29:00.000-08:00I see Christmas as an expansion of everything Jesu...I see Christmas as an expansion of everything Jesus came to the world to do. The hope, the light, the love at that very moment of his arrival are so overwhelming that the celebration expands to everything in life, which is why the season has so much joy. On the dark night of Christmas Eve, I sit in church looking into my candle and imagine what that moment just have been like so long ago, when all of creation was holding its breath, waiting, when the Savior that had been promised for so long was about to appear, and my eyes fill with tears from the sheer wonder of it all. It is sometimes too overwhelming to fully understand.<BR/><BR/>And this is what Christmas is, the wonder. This is why it is such a powerful time of year. When you pull out the reason for the celebration, yes, the residual bits remain, but I think that in the end it will disintegrate into something meaningless, as our commercial culture encourages.<BR/><BR/>The wonderful thing about Christmas is that since it is celebration of Jesus' birth, it doesn't really matter whether Jesus was born on that night or not. (And yes, probably not.) It's just a moment set aside to recall the events of that night in real-time, and that, really, can be done anytime of the year. 8')<BR/><BR/>Sorry I didn't get a chance to comment earlier (darn illness!!) but I hope you don't mind me throwing my two cents in!Kthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18123389684717009285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298303.post-17481076345244778112007-12-14T12:04:00.000-08:002007-12-14T12:04:00.000-08:00I think Christmas stopped being primarily about Je...I think Christmas stopped being primarily about Jesus for a lot of people a long time ago, especially when the smart people who know such things started yelling about the probability that Jesus was actually born in the spring. :) For us, Christmas is a time to celebrate family and friends.. It's sort of like Thanksgiving but on steroids and with presents!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com