Christmas is about visit and rescue... C.S. Lewis, writes about how Narnia is a land trapped in the grip of a situation where it is always winter, but never Christmas. That the dead season of winter, when the life of nature is snuffed out by the cold and the ice and winds, and where the only thing that can alleviate the suffering of the long dark evenings the scratching for warmth and food is the arrival of Father Christmas, or at least what he represents. Community, generosity, provision, feasting, togetherness.... For some it seems that all year is winter, and Christmas in that sense never arrives.
Some of course are waiting for the arrival of a parcel from A Viking, some Internet from a virgin, a sky fall with a dinner jacketed rescuer, or a windfall from the lottery, help us we cry, come and rescue us.
What are you waiting for?
Have you ever searched for something, and after a while, found it right under your nose?
Have you ever waiting for something to arrive, and found that it arrived ages ago, and you hadn't noticed?
Have you ever waited for a parcel, and found its gone next door, and they've gone away..!?
Have you ever thought, that the answer to your winter is Jesus, he's been right under your nose all the time?
Have you ever thought that, the answer you have been searching for arrived 2000 years ago, and has actually been quietly at work in your life ever since?
Have you ever thought, that Jesus has been at your neighbours house all this time, waiting for you to open your door to him...?
