Christmas 2003 - Let Love In

The wonderful moment of Christmas is just that; we are asked to put off our toiling and let love in. If you stop and think about it for a minute, God did not ask Mary to do anything. God did not ask Joseph to do anything. Rather he asked them to let Him do something for them. God said let me act in your life. Let me give you the gift of a child – not just any child – not just the wonderful rejoicing of a couple seeking to have a child – but a child who is the Son of God! Allow this child to touch your lives; allow this child to show you who I am; allow this child to do something within you, around you, above you, beneath you. Allow this child who is LOVE in. 

At Christmas all of us are busy toiling over many things to DO for other people. We seek to DO special things for people. We seek to DO a wonderful dinner for them. We seek to DO our shopping and give them a wonderful present. We seek to DO a kind deed so that they can feel better. We seek to DO this because this is the time to share with one another the wonders of God’s abundant love for you and me – and we seek to show others that love through our words and deeds. 

But the invitation this Christmas is to let GOD DO SOMETHING IN YOU. God is dying to show us how much He loves us. God is so anxious for us to behold the gentleness with which He treats each and every one of us. God is so anxious to reveal Himself to you and to me. And you know He is different than He was last year or last week. He is different than He was when we were children celebrating Christmas. He is different because you and I are different. But you and I are asked to open our eyes and see God – alive in you, alive in me, alive in our world, alive in our joy, alive in our pain, alive in all things.   

Can a feast that strings light over the entire world not have the power to light up the dark areas of our hearts and souls with the caring love of God? The feast of Christmas is prepared; the invitations are out. Who will come and find God? He is here in our midst. Let us sing with the angels – GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST.  MAY HE BRING PEACE TO OUR WORLD, OUR FAMILIES, OUR LIVES, AND OUR HEARTS. 

Love, 
Father Kelly