Miracle of Christmas

Alan Anderson Christopher

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What is it about Christmas that so touches our souls? In this article, the author discusses the deeper meaning of Christmas--perhaps today even lost to our religions. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science and Philosophy, Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia. He resides in the transcendental/romantic tradition, that vein of spiritual creativity of the philosopher and poet. His quest has been to define and express an eternal romantic reality from which a man and a woman could together stand in their difference and create a living universe of procreative love. Mr. Anderson began these writings in 1971. The first writings were published in 1985. On a personal note, when Mr. Anderson was asked to describe the writings and what he felt their message was he responded, "Spiritual procreation. Mankind has yet to distinguish the two sexes on the spiritual level. In this failure lies the root of our problems and why we cannot yet touch the eternal together. The message of man and woman balance brings each of us together in love with our eternal other half right now."

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian worship

Informations

• Publié par: First Edition Design Publishing
• Date de parution: 29 août 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781622871391
• Langue: English

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The Miracle of Christmas
Christopher Alan Anderson


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The Miracle of Christmas



Christopher Alan Anderson
The Miracle of Christmas
Copyright 2012 Christopher Alan Anderson
ISBN 978-1622871-39-1

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I was born into a Christian home. Growing up, my most favorable memories we r e those times of Christ m as. From my Mom's Christmas co o kies to t h e wonde r ful Christmas music and cheer to the opening o f gifts with m y Dad and Mom and three brothers—my heart still beats w i th Christmas. But what is it about Christm a s? Might we ask, what is its spirit?
I menti o n t his because we a r e l i ving in a time when secularism is t a k ing over things. Instead of h earing “Merry Chris t mas,” we hear “Happy Holidays.” Instead of enj o ying a manger s ce ne of the baby Jesus, we now see the Atheist sign n e xt to it. Darwinian scien c e proclaims that life and the univer s e are nothing more t h an a c o smic accident. You get the idea. The r e is a ce r tain spirit being taken out of life to d ay. What is this spirit?

As I am writing this we, in Ame r ic a n, are going through a terrible fi na ncial cri s is. All the promises of the g o vernment ( and the FED) seem hollow. The stability of the system is in question. Culturally as well. What has the s e xual revo l utio n , with i t sex befo r e love attitude, its abortion and homosexuality, brought about? The whole basis/definition o f marria g e a nd family i s now in question. Whe r e does that lead? World over we a re under assault fr o m Islamic fana t icism. What is that all about? All of this feels to me like an assault upon the Christmas s p i rit.

What is this Christmas spirit t h at makes Christmas diffe r e nt? ( I would suggest it is this same s pirit that makes Ch r i s t iani t y diffe r e nt f rom other r eli g io n s.) In Chris t ian t e rms, we would say that it is the birth of our savior. I would like to suggest that it is the birth o f life that is the spirit, i.e., that the r e i s a holine s s to each a n d every life. Christ, for me, stands for the pure birth, not a birth tainted in sin but in salvation. As the Christian Saint Meister Eckhart (1260–1327) pointed out, “Every son is the only begott e n son.” We might want to add, “Every daughter is the only begotten dau g hter,” but Meis t e r Eck h art was o n the right track. Every birth is God expres s e d , if you will. When a mother holds her new b o rn babe in her arms, don't we see the spir i t of Christmas? Her baby is Jesus, too. Her baby is the most important b aby in the world, too.

There is a n other aspe c t to this i d ea of birth t h at is esse n tial to our understanding of Christmas. T his is th a t the birth of life is enco d ed as the o r der and process of life. In my comment about science proclaiming that life and the universe a r e n othing mo r e than a cosmic accident (not all scientists say this but some do), if this were true, that makes the birth of life nothing m o re than an accident. If life is an accident can we say that it is pure and holy (or primordial), that e very birth is t h e most special birth? Can we say that there is purpose in each life a n d that e v ery life has eternal meaning? I think not. But if birth is somehow incorporated into the n a ture of the univer s e i t self—wo w , now we have something.

This idea of the birth of life is c