There is a child in each of us waiting to be born again. It is to those looking for life that the figure of the Christ, a child, beckons. Christmas is not for children. It is for those who refuse to give up and grow old, for those to whom life comes newly and with purpose each and every day, for those who can let yesterday go so that life can be full of new possibility always, for those who are agitated with newness whatever their age. Life is for the living, for those in whom Christmas is a feast without finish, a celebration of the constancy of change, a call to begin once more the journey to human joy and holy meaning.
--Sr. Joan Chittister, In Search of Belief
Image source: Nativity mural, Batahola Norte Community Center, Managua, Nicaragua, https://thejesusquestion.org/2015/12/25/more-nativity-paintings-from-around-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR2Ge8faBzsd_d25b5u4MA240zzxtIcL4SKuYohReNmPS9931r9ezxvlPR4
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