Christmas Day 2025 Christ every day
There is a song which asks ‘Why can’t every day be Christmas? If we feel this good on one day, why not all days?
The song is assuming that every house is experiencing joy. There is so much that is good and desirable about Christmas, why can we not have the same things every day? Especially that people get along while peace and harmony reign.
Christmas conveys a set of ideals that we wish would be established in practice – could be, should be, must be - as expressions of all the good there is, or can be achieved.
We could be cynical about Christmas, dismissing it as just ideals and only ever that. The human race will never (in this view) rise above its present level – hatred, violence, exploitation etc.
We point to the Crib in Bethlehem and say, as long as we have that scene our hope will never be exhausted.
If we have the Christ Child we have God and all the power and goodness that flows from Him. Nothing negative or evil can find a place in His presence.
The main reason humanity has been unable to put the ideal into practice is that we have not yet, even yet, given God the full recognition that we need to make.
We say that God is not listening to us, does not care – it is really the other way round. We are not listening to Him.
He has the will and the power to save us.
And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins (Mt 1,21).
He does many things for us but most of all He saves us. Saves from what, we might say?
Most of all from Sin. Sin is a state of alienation from God. Jesus removes that alienation, fills the gap, the void which sin leaves between the sinner and God.
Jesus in His humanity loves God and takes the human race to the heights that He has reached, enabling us to fill the emptiness caused by sin.
We love God more in proportion as we are freed from sin and its attachments. Sin is replaced by Grace, the life of God, the goodness of God, shared with us.
So at Christmas we look at many aspects of our world which are not joyful or peaceful; but we can apply to all difficulties the grace of God, which sets all thing right.
Hearts and minds are changed as we are exposed to such goodness. We are healed at the deepest point where sin takes root and that makes Christmas happen right inside us.
We may not have the trimmings of Christmas every day, but we can have Christ dwelling in us and transforming us.
Not Christmas every day but Christ every day! And that is better still.
All that is necessary is found in Him; all we have to do is ask for it to come upon us. The grace and mercy of God will set us free.
We see that we are not just wishing for better things but actually helping to bring them about.
We dare to hope for more than one happy day a year!
God loves us; we love Him in the strength of that love. The stronger the flame we offer Him the better all the other things in our world will dispose themselves.
In reverence to these great truths we wish each other happiness, and for ever. Happy Christmas!
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