Article December 20, 1975 Issue

Come Home for Christmas

MELVILLE JOHN VICKERMAN

For many of us, Christmas is a family time. Family members often gather at the home of their parents for an annual reunion. However, the actual place seems not so important as celebrating Christmas together in the atmosphere of home.

But what about those who want very much to go home for the holiday season and can't? Or one already at home who faces the disappointment of no one coming home this year? Mrs. Eddy, in a short article on Christmas, says: "Alas for the broken household band! God give to them more of His dear love that heals the wounded heart."^{ The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 257;}

Have circumstances convinced you that although you want to go home for Christmas, it is impossible? Or does the happy expectation of a family member's arrival seem out of the question? Take heart! There is an answer. And the Christ, the spiritual idea of divine Love, supplies it. After all, isn't that what Christmas is about—the celebration of Christ?

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