Christmas Eve is Here
Christmas Eve is finally here! After weeks of waiting and anticipation, we are finally on the threshold of a holy night filled with boundless wonder. We welcome the miracle of the Incarnation, God made flesh, dwelling among us.
It is a birth so simple yet so profound. The Creator of the universe enters our world not with fanfare or extravagance but in a most unexpected and humble way. God's immeasurable and infinite love becomes physical—fragile and small yet holding all the world's hope. This love meets us in our humanity and needs. It appears even when we offer no room in our world or hearts.
What does this night mean for us? It means that our expectations or circumstances do not limit God's love. The birth of Christ tells us that God enters the most unlikely places—our mess, our struggles, our brokenness, our loneliness—with boundless grace and mercy.
So, if Christmas Eve finds you among piles of torn wrapping paper amid family gatherings or if it finds you in the quiet with no gift or person in sight, know the boundless presence of Emmanuel, God with us, meets you there. If things feel dark for you, things were dark years ago when Light pierced the darkness in the form of a tiny, vulnerable baby named God-with-us. Right into the mess, our mess, God delivered hope and a promise that darkness would not win. It never wins. It cannot win. This is still true today. Darkness never has the final word.
May we always make room. May we always remember that the hope, peace, joy, and love we've always longed for are found not in the things of this world but in the presence of the One who has come and will come again with boundless, infinite love.