Christmas, a rare moment of peace in our world

Christmas of Jesus represents so much for humankind that we want to speak about it in this week that precedes it.

When a child is born, parents get clearly happy. The home is decorated for the baby’s arrival and the grandparents experience a daily concern during the months preceding this moment so expected.

Life means a lot to all of us. The reentry of the spirit in this scenario that offers so many beauties to us constitutes the opening of new opportunities of work, self-reform, indemnity and progress.

On the other hand, the spirit’s departure means the opposite. Death brings sadness, nostalgia and agony. In its quick passage, it leaves a trace of pain and a sense of emptiness hardly fulfilled by any other thing. If a mother has ten children and loses one of them, she’ll feel the absence of that one who departed although a numerous offspring remains, because children are like a piece of our beings of who we dream of perpetuating our name.

Christmas is the advent of a specially important person to humankind, given that Jesus, regardless of his immense superiority, which elevates him above all his brothers, is a friend, a partner, an invisible angel that comforts everyone and feeds our hunger for peace and balance with his presence.

The approximation of Christmas exerts, therefore, an enchanting magic over all homes, since it constitutes a rare moment of peace and the stimulus so that the necessary change takes place, as expected by Jesus from the whole humankind.

On Earth – nobody ignores – there are wars, conflicts, hunger everywhere. But, while the Christ’s message exists, wrapped in his Gospel of Light, there will be hope for the world we live in, and one day man will reach the brilliant destiny assigned by God. It was Jesus who declared: “Whatsoever I do, you will be able to do too, and much more”. It was also him who said: “None of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost”.

Thus, Christmas is one of those scarce moments of clarity in the planet we live in, where trials and expiations predominate with their entire courtship of vicissitudes.

May this clarity introduce a different atmosphere in our homes and lives, making possible an inner reform, so that there’s one less unhappy person in the world and that we all can eliminate the “old man” still living within us, having Jesus as a model and being sure that “there’s no solution outside Christ”, as Bezerra de Menezes well said.