Christmas Connections....

John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

My wife and I had Open Houses to visit on Sunday afternoon...before making the mad dash into downtown DC--just making the metro, then JFK Shuttle, of course nobody was at "Will Call" because everyone was already in the theatre--and as we were sitting down---the special Christmas Concert began for a full house!  Now you talk about making every single connection right on time to land in our seats--wow--that was either remarkable or just dumb luck and probably both! 

In all of our flying around to gather and do things, Christmas is after all about a person and all people.  It is about the supreme connection between heaven and earth, God and creation--the closing if you will of that gap in the Sistine Chapel of the two hands coming together--by virtue of the gift of God's Son.  We would do best if we could honor relationships to celebrate the Christ in Christmas.  The reverse leaves a bitter taste for years of broken relationships because we were either blind to them or just hoped for dumb luck.