My favorite scene in Christmas Vacation is the drive to get the tree. When they find it, lights from heaven fall upon it. This is THE tree picked out just for them. A heavenly chorus plays in the background.
I also recall the move, "The Nativity," in which the traditional story line of the birth of the Christ Child plays out. Nothing different, same story, enduring miracle. Except! At the moment of the birth, the scene shows the same light pouring from the heavens on the stable -- just as it appears on this tree. Once again--the heavenly chorus plays in the background. The parallel is striking for me because it seems that the only way we can distinguish God's work is if God puts a spotlight on it.
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Walker Percy, American Book Award Winner, says that we write stories that blow the ending. God does not work with spotlights. We slowly open our eyes to God's work like a newborn. Sure there are times when things really light up for us. I am just saying that spiritual eyes are different from a supernatural light show in the skies. I do not need the Star of Bethlehem to open my eyes to the Christ Child--it is over the journey of a lifetime that we learn who it is who is born for us.
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