“Take time to be aware that in the very midst of our busy
preparation for the celebration of Christ’s birth in ancient Bethlehem, Christ
is reborn in the Bethlehems of our homes and daily lives. Take time, slow down,
be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary
yet is wondrously present.
“An old abbot was fond of saying, “The devil is always the most active
on the highest feast days.”
“The supreme trick of Old
Scratch is to have us so busy decorating, preparing food, practicing music, and
cleaning in preparation for the feast of Christmas that we actually miss the
coming of Christ. Hurt feelings, anger, impatience, injured egos – the list of
clouds that busyness creates to blind us to the birth can be long, but it is familiar to us all."
Edward Hayes, A Pilgrim’s Almanac
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