Countdown to Christmas: Re-Imagining the Celebration, 4 of 7
Less than one week to Christmas. Got all your shopping done yet? As the final madness approaches, please join me for 7 days and 7 stories/blurbs/video/audio/etc. about how we may re-imagine, re-appropriate, and re-learn how to celebrate the story of the Lord of the World arriving in a feeding trough in the middle of the night, the bastard this-worldly son of an unwed mother, destined to become the most climactic figure in all history by accepting the call to embody the fullness of His other-worldly Father. It's not quite poetry; it's not quite an essay; I call it a "manifesto." It's perhaps the most poignant modern writing on Christmas I've yet found. May it challenge you and focus your perspective, as it did mine. Part 4 of 7: The Christmas Manifesto There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day,and that is, keeping Christmas. Are you willing… to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; t...