How good that our celebration of Christmas falls at the darkest time of the year. Granted, the timing falls in line with ancient pagan celebrations. But the birth of Jesus Christ is the birth of the One True Light of the World. And the darkest days around the winter solstice signal the gradual ascent of the sun back to our hemisphere.
Meanwhile Psalm 139:12 tells us,“Indeed the darkness shall not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You,” NKJV
In our Lord Jesus Christ, there is no darkness. When HE decrees darkness on the earth, through the rotation of our planet around the sun, life continues to thrive in the secret darkness beneath the earth. And out of that darkness, comes new life—the flowers of spring.
We have an abundance of florists and greenhouses to span the darkening days of the year; yet there is nothing like the real thing—-blooms and greenery bursting forth from warm soil. Fortunately for the artist, a semblance of new life in spring can prevail throughout the year!
Merry Christmas, to you readers who are literally all over the world, in case I cannot get back to this blog until next year. I appreciate you so much!
And may you always have flowers!
Margaret L. Been — December 16th, 2018