✨Christmas— A True Reason to Celebrate

The Pause

Before you begin,
be still.

The Light that once entered the world
is entering you now.

Every December we hang lights, sing carols, and remember a birth that changed the world.
But if Christmas is only the memory of something that happened once in Bethlehem,
we are still standing outside the manger.

The miracle was never meant to stay confined to history.
It was, and is, the birth of Christ in us —
the Light entering dust,
the Word finding breath again.

The same Spirit that overshadowed Mary hovers still,
waiting for every open heart to whisper,
“Let it be unto me.”

The shepherds saw angels.
The magi saw a star.
But what heaven celebrated that night
was not spectacle;
it was surrender.

It was humanity becoming a womb again —
receiving the Word,
not as idea, but as Life.

And so the invitation returns every year:
not to decorate the stable, but to become it.
Not to admire the Light, but to let it fall upon us
until it awakens what has slept too long.

“Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”
— Ephesians 5:14

Christmas is not a season.
It is the moment we stop striving to reach God
and realize He has already entered our flesh,
our weakness,
our world.

It is the hush before dawn
when every soul becomes Bethlehem again —
ordinary, unpolished,
yet ready.

So may this Christmas find us
not performing holiness,
but consenting to it.

May we listen for the quiet heartbeat of God
beneath our own.

And may we learn to celebrate
not only the birth of Christ for us,
but the birth of Christ within us.

The Light still shines.
It only waits for us to open our eyes
and see
that morning has already begun.

Under the Sun / Beyond the Sun

You do not travel to Bethlehem.
Bethlehem rises within you.

Let the Light be born.
Let the Word take flesh.
Christ is arriving —
here,
now,
in you.