Telephone calls, e-mails and faxes arrive establishing contact with those whose lives have touched ours in various ways. Then friendships bring no joy. Homes are filled with decorations. Lights embellish houses and draw onlookers. Gifts are selected with care and wrapped creatively.
Special food is prepared and shared with family, friends and neighbors.
Bright clothes adorned with Christmas symbols are worn. Concerts, plays and parties fill days and nights with events not enjoyed any other season. Then festivity brings no joy. We can experience first hand faith in the Word made flesh. We can share that faith with others in order that they may know the peace that passes all understanding and the joy that only Jesus brings.