‘So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and dear one
The old and the young
A very Merry Christmas
And a happy new year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The worlds is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red one
Let’s stop all the fight
A very Merry Christmas
And a happy new year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so happy Christmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very Merry Christmas
And a happy new year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now’
John Lennon
And, so, we prepare our hearts for the birth of Jesus. We know that he was, ‘wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, because there was no room for him in the inn.’
We read where he was born in humble and mean surroundings and that he was neither accepted by the religious authorities of his day…nor the government of his time.
Although, ‘the common people heard him gladly,’ when it as was the time of his crucifixion….The mob, when given the choice of the release of him or the robber Barabbas…proclaimed….’Give us Barabbas!’
On this Christmas Eve…we pray for peace and security for our family and our friends and our acquaintances. The people that we encounter, that our within our social circle and our bubble and who attend church with us on Sunday morning. We know that we want the people that; look like us, and think like us, and worship like us…to be covered by God’s infinite grace….…
There was a popular saying, for many years, and there was even a bracelet made from the first letters of the proclamation, ‘What Would Jesus Do?’
When we see the homeless sitting, precariously, on the bar stool…WWJD?
When we see the Muslim being persecuted for their faith…WWJD?
When hispanic children are locked in cages at our southern border…WWJD?
When we love the exclusivity of a narrow and hate filled gospel….How will we feel when we fall out of it’s close parameters?
Could it be that the Christ only loves a minute segment of his creation? If that is the case….He is biased…just like us….
The Happy Traveler 