Happy Christmas Dear Reader,
If you have never seen one of those Hallmark or Lifetime Christmas
movies, you must. If you are a diabetic,
have your insulin handy. The movies are simple, sugar-sweet, and
formulaic. Most of them are family safe
and set in beautiful snowy places that do not exist.
The basic plot is this:
someone is recently widowed, alone, or just broke up with someone who
was not right for him or her. He or she
returns to a small town, is stranded in a small town, or finds a small town
accidentally whilst pursuing something else.
Our lead character has a seemingly insurmountable challenge, meets the
love of their life, and resolves things into Christmas bliss (unless there is a
planned sequel in which case there will be some resolution and some open
questions).
Why then do we enjoy these films? Why is the rule that things not be predictable
in movies suspended for this? Movies are
expensive to produce. Still, the
channels that feature them churn out several a year and rerun the best from
previous years. The movies run on two
channels owned by the same entity twenty-four-seven during December.
The answer to the why of this goes to the core of who we
are. We want the happily-ever-after. We want the bad guy to get his comeuppance. Our hearts have a longing for the simple and
the beautiful. We also, whether we admit
it or not, believe in true love and desire it if we do not have it.
It also goes to the core of Christmas. It is a microcosm of our world. There is pain and struggle. We have seen and continue to see things that
push us toward hoping that there is something better. We like knowing that things are going to work
out. It is Christmas that tells us they
will. We long for redemption and love
redemption stories.
If you wish to carry Christmas in your heart, Dear Reader, you
must understand that hope, faith, and love are at the core of it. Time will flow through the glass and things
will unfold as they are intended. Before
the credits roll on our world, the baby in the manger will return as the King
of Kings to right the wrongs, set the world back to its simple beauty, and claim
us as his bride. It is in this that we
find hope, sweetness, and can predict the most beautiful of outcomes. It is this that we must carry so that we can
extend love and the Spirit of Christmas to the world.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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Thorn:
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