The Spirit of Christmas is found in our ability to care for, and reach out to family and friends and even those who are strangers to us, yet have a need for help.
When we look at a Crib, at the young mother Mary and her new born child Jesus, we are easily moved with compassion for their plight. Joseph is there as their support and guardian, yet he too is poor and without worldly possessions.
Did God not care enough for them? However, when we look at the birth of Christ with eyes of Faith, we can begin to understand the Mind of God.
We have been given a wonderful world, and we can learn to enjoy the pleasure of good food and friends and the comfort of living a good life.
However, this is only a foundation, a help towards becoming the true person that God invites us to become.
We are invited to love, and in loving there will be suffering too. We are called to love God and be guided, not by our own limited wisdom, but by the Wisdom of God.
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