Article December 20, 2010 Issue

Christmas presence anytime, anywhere

BY MARJORIE TIS

Christmas is such a special time of year. But sometimes we may find ourselves feeling pressured into trying to make everything about our holiday celebration perfect, and it can seem as though we have to cram all things beautiful and charitable into a finite space. It's as if we have just once a year to "get it right," and that's that. Then it's over, and we're back to business as usual.

Christian Science has helped me think of Christmas in a much bigger way, as an ongoing eternal event, an experience of grace and truth that takes place in thought as the effect of God's unconditional love for us. It involves the dawning recognition of our spirituality, and the adoption of the Godlike purity of thought and life that characterized the Son of the Virgin-mother.

The light of the Christ breaks the intense mortal dream of separation from God, of sin and condemnation, and opens our eyes to Spirit's glorious ever-presence and to the original innocence of all of us as God's children. We glimpse our forever oneness with God, and our likeness to Him—and we're filled with the joy of Immanuel.

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