Don’t Forget to Look Up at Christmas
Don’t forget to look up at Christmas!
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
At this time of the rolling year, I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!
Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!”
— Jacob Marley, in Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
The Star of Bethlehem Still Calls Us to Look Up
The Star of Bethlehem led the Wise Men to the newborn Christ, not to their own business or comfort. It is so easy to deny the child within us, the child that is accustomed to being little and ever-ready to look up at the awe of love above.
