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Published on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 12:26

It ain’t over yet!  The decorations may be coming down, the Christmas music put away, but it’s not over. Christmas isn’t finished.  As the church, we only just start celebrating Christmas on December 25th, but we don’t finish till January 6th, on Epiphany.  Remember that old song the 12 days of Christmas?

I know it seems a bit strange, to start the celebration when everyone around us is wrapping up, but this is our opportunity to bear witness to our faith.  To assert that Christmas is fundamentally about Jesus Christ and a God who is willing to walk with us.   So sing a carol.  Take a moment to wish someone a Merry Christmas.  Keep the tree and nativity up for another week.  And celebrate that Christ is come.  

But don’t let it stop there, Christmas is also more than just a season.  As we celebrate God’s gift in giving us the Son, we affirm that we are transformed.  Our lives are lived in Christ.  Throughout the next couple months, in the season after Epiphany, we read Bible passages in worship that are all about the revelation of what it means to have Christ with us, to experience God with us.  In a way, it is a continuation of the Christmas theme that begins it all.  

May your Christmas (all of it) and your Epiphany be a blessed one, filled with the Joy of God with Us and the radiant light that the darkness can never overcome.