December 1, 2025
C.S. Lewis famously said, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else“. A faith in Jesus Christ acts as the necessary light and framework through which we can understand the entire world and all of reality, just as sunlight allows us to see everything else around us.
Our focus on light is natural in a season of darkness. The symbol of the star permeates everything Christians do at Christmastime. Like many Christians, our family’s Advent tradition begins and ends our season, and is the nucleus of the holiday. It helps us focus on the Savior and gives us special opportunities to share His light and love.
“The same God that placed that star in a precise orbit millennia before it appeared over Bethlehem in celebration of the birth of the babe, has given at least equal attention to the placement of each of us and the precise human orbit so that we may, if we will illuminate the landscapes of our individual lives so that our light may not only lead others but warm them as well.” (Neal A. Maxwell)
We can’t raise the dead or help the blind to see, but we can reflect the light and warmth of the Savior, and share His peace with the world.
“Never at any other season does peace come closer to a universal reality. Not far from us, surrounded by his legions of heavenly hosts, this same Jesus works today toward the time when He will come again to the earth. It will be a glorious day, perhaps much nearer than we think. And when it arrives, men will call it the millennium; a Christmas season of peace on earth that will last 1000 years.” (Bonnie Cordon)
May you have and share the peace of Christmas all year.