I look around at all the lights and displays on homes and in stores for the Christmas season. Beautiful as they catch your eyes. You can't help but be drawn to them like bugs to those warm lights at night on the front porch. Christmas dazzles mostly everyone.
Most people who think I'm very Christmassy has never met my husband. He would start preparing from November and on Christmas day he gets up excitedly and dances to the tree, makes a nice cup of tea and sits all cozy, anticipating the rest of day.
I don't consider myself to be that much of a Christmas person, where all the decor and running around is concerned. The lights are beautiful but I'm not particularly swayed by them. I hate the clutter. I thoroughly hate the crowds in the malls and roadways as you try to carry out simple errands. I find the season to be an unnecessary burden because after that one day, the world goes back to normal. The feeling of giving dwindles, the trees go down, the light on the houses and stores are taken off... And the world reverts to the usual darkness.
I'm not the Grinch or Mrs. Scrooge, I do love Christmas but for a different reason. For a different light. I love to bring joy and cheer for a different reason. A different message.
Isaiah 9:2 NKJV The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a light has shined.
In my life, I had many ups and downs. I felt like I was in an abyss of darkness. Most times, I felt like I would stay there forever, like this was my life now. This is how I'd live until I die. If not for the light in the darkest moments, I'd have no hope.
Sometimes I wonder if we're so engrossed by the lights of Christmas trees and store fronts that we don't realize that there's a light that was sent to us, brighter than any other, that pierces through the thickest darkness.
I wonder if we put up the Christmas lights because we are searching for a deeper light to fill that void. Deep down inside we know there's something that will get us out of darkness. Light that won't disappear when we fall back into the routine of darkness. One that can be our illumination in the lands of shadows and death.
This verse is the reason, I love Christmas. I don't care for the date Christ was born but I know He came. He walked the Earth. He brought with Him light, truth and life so that all who walked in darkness... Would see this light and never need another source.
You see when Christmas is over, and the novelty fades away. I can still count on the Light that Christ brought because, like Him, it never dies.
The Season is meant to remind us, that we always have hope. There will always be that light at the end of the tunnel of despair, because of Him.
The lights of Christmas time eventually disappear. They don't remain. While we think darkness is the absence of light and it's here to stay... Darkness also isn't a permanent thing. It's temporary until a light comes on. The stage is only dark until there is a spotlight. That's exactly what Christ brought to us. A light that won't dim, filled with hope to lead us out of darkness as it is dispelled.
Hope brings positivity, joy, expectations. All of these are good, healthy emotions. Why would we not want these in our life? I know what darkness brings. What terrors lurk there. Hopelessness and depression. Worry and fear.
Jesus said in John 8:12 "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life"
And then He gave us the ability to have and share this light in Matthew 5:14-16 "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house"
So when people think I'm Christmassy, it's not that I like the hype it brings. The light comes from within. I want people to experience this light, like I have. To have hope in dark situations. To have comfort when all you want to do is hide away and die.
Because... The best thing to have in darkness is The Light, that will never lose its power!
Merry Christmas to all and a Blessed 2025 that is full of this Everlasting Light! From Celine Elizabeth
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