Article December 26, 2005 Issue

POST-CHRISTMAS INVENTORY

BY JUDITH HARDY OLSON

January 2 it was , and I was putting the Christmas decorations away. That job can seem like a downer, so while I was doing it, I was mentally taking a post-Christmas inventory.

By that I mean remembering and appreciating each instance that had made this Christmas meaningful to me. Not just events and gatherings, but details—little signs of caring I'd noticed in those around me. News items that showed the Christmas spirit. And most of all, my own inspired thoughts all during the season, especially ones from my "manger moments," quiet, contemplative times when I'd cherished the Christ.

I think of the Christ as the truth of God that Jesus lived, taught, and proved. Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "[The] Christ, or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine nature, the godliness which animated him" (Science and Health, p. 26). As I thought about how I'd been living with these spiritual insights—hugging the world in them, too—my inventory was full of sweet, special "manger moments." I felt pleased, grateful.

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