Some of you, eager to let go of the old and get on with the new in the New Year, are contemplating taking your Christmas trees down. Maybe even…tonight!
Don’t do it!
Not yet. It’s still Christmas! Right up to Epiphany.
This year will be different, if you hold on to what you found – the joy and the hope and the light – at Christmas.
Well o.k., if your tree is a live one and really dry, with needles falling off all over the carpet, then at least, at least, keep a few Christmas cards around the house. I’ve got one with the most beautiful image of Mary, her face aglow as she gazes down in wonder at the newborn Savior in her arms. I think I’m going to keep this card out where I can see it all year long, with my other family pictures. (Mary is part of God’s big family and so am I, so that makes us family.)
Mary is not just a character in a treasured old story that I tell my kids once a year. She’s alive in spirit with God because of His son, her Lord and Savior!
Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, lives – now and into the New Year – in me.
Is He alive in you?