Dillon Community Church

The Magic of Christmas

Christmas is magical. It is! The magic of a white Christmas, with fresh snow glistening in our yards and on our mountains, feels good. This holiday where we pause to gather around the table with friends and family from near and far, brings nostalgia. We laugh, we tell stories. We open cards with smiling faces from those we love and catch up through snail mail. The kitchen smells wonderful and may take us back to mothers and grandmothers, aunts, and cousins, cooking together and jostling against each other in too small spaces. The homes we live in are loud. Christmas music plays in the background (Michael Bublé and Babyface come out for the annual traditional songs in my home) or folks gather around a piano or guitar to sing those songs we all know by heart. Kids throw themselves down sledding hills on plastic sleds or if the street is frozen, those Radio Flyers. We trudge through snow to cut down trees or put up the boxed ones, then decorate together while the hot chocolate simmers. Snowmen are built, lights are put up on our rooftops. We put our kids on Santa’s lap and dream a little about those gifts. We turn to the Christmas Story and consider the real magic, of an all-powerful God remembering us. Loving us enough to send his Son – all God and all Man – to show up as a baby. Keep that truth alive in our traditions. Stoke up a fire, put on something comfy, and sit with our families and open the Bible to Luke 2. Turns out that the magic we feel, is love.

Kathy Jo Pfeifer