Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all!

Today we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, who came to earth two millenia ago to do the will of the Father. He played an indispensable role in the conflict between good and evil.

What is good? A few of the characteristics of good are truth, light, beauty, peace, joy, power, and freedom. Evil is the opposite, with error, darkness, ugliness, conflict, misery, weakness, and bondage.

Beware the counterfeits of good. Error may sound like truth, may be presented as truth, but yet is still error. Dim light may be used to advance evil, but it fades to nothing in the presence of the true and glorious light. Beauty is simulated with pretty, peace with compulsion, joy with pleasure, power with tyranny, and freedom with license.

Without Jesus and the role he played, we would be forever trapped by evil, we would be resigned to dwell eternally with it.

But Christ fulfilled his mission, and did so gloriously. He bridged the bottomless pit that we may safely cross into his presence.

Gloria in excelsis deo!