
My Dear Friends…
I have had many requests through the years at Christmas time to re-publish a commentary that I offered to my audience back in 2007 about this very special time of year. And so, I offer this article here, and I am glad that it has been so well received that each season I receive requests to run it again…
I couldn’t sleep last night.
I was up from 2 until 6, having another one of my Conversations with God.
“Tell me about Christmas,” I said. “What is it really all about?”
And I heard, “What do you mean, what is it really all about? I’ve told you a million times what it’s all about.”
So I said, “Tell me again. I think I may have missed it.”
And suddenly my head was filled with a Christmas Carol – one of the happiest and most triumphant of all the melodies of Christmas.
“Joy to the world,” the song began, “the Lord has come.”
But I couldn’t get into it. I kept wondering, what is joyful about the coming of someone who is going to be a lord over us?
God! I said…I don’t understand this!
And God replied, “You’re right. You don’t.”