Christmas Eve Eve

Destination
or
Journey?

What is the purpose
of life?

The Christmas story
is hardly a story about destination.
A stable?
Not much comfort
in a stable.

We're the ones who make
the stable comfortable.
All these years later
we romanticize
sterilize,
oversimplify.

"No crying he makes."

We silence Mary too...
We don't hear
her birth pain screams.

We don't think too long
about that tiny baby
in the midst of
cows
and sheep
and all the "stuff"
that comes
with cows and sheep.

We make
this story something
it is not...

Nativity...
it isn't about the
destination...
it is about the journey.

Life
and all it holds
is about
the journey.

For soon
they will leave
the stable...
and the journey
will only get
more complicated.....
at least from
the perspective of a parent.

And what does
God have to say
to us about this?

"Don't
be
afraid."