The gifts have been given. I have listened to Handel's Messiah at least 15 times over the past two weeks, not to mention Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby. I have gorged on football, both college and professional. I had my yearly viewing of It’s a Wonderful Life, and my annual consumption of chocolate has quadrupled in the past week, and the three pounds I gained prove it. I still have one week to enjoy my Christmas tree until Marsha makes me take it down. We put it up November 3rd. What can I say….I like the lights. But now it is over… Or is it?
Christmas is seasonal and occasional, but then again, it is neither. It is in reality, continual and perpetual. And that is the point. It is real because the Christ of Christmas is real and He is eternal.
The ancient Hymn written by the Apostle Paul to the first-century Christians of the Colossian church is as relevant today to those of us who live in the twenty-first century modern world.
And He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation. For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church, and He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven. Colossians 1:15-20
That little baby was no ordinary baby. And, as for Christmas being over….It is only the beginning.
Serving Him with you Until He comes for us. Fred | 
