Making Room For Christ - Week Five: "Nunc Dimittis"
Christmas is over. The day came and went in a flash. After all of the preparation, the scrambling, the shopping, cooking, baking, driving to and fro, family gatherings, office parties, church services and late night wrapping sessions... It's over. And now comes the weird bit of time between Christmas and New Year's Day --A time when it seems like Christmas only it isn't. It's a time when you don't really want to take down all of your Christmas decorations because you labored so long to put them up--but you also can't really stand hearing any more Christmas songs so there's that... The child was born, and now we'll move on... at some point the decorations will be put away, the lights snuffed and everything will be stored in red and green rubbermaid boxes, which we'll heft up into the attic. If you think about the story of Christ's birth, though, it's not that dissimilar. Sure, there was a ton of awesomeness that happene...