“Later”
“Later after the angels, after the stable, after the Child, they went back… as we always must, back to the world that doesn’t understand our talk of angels and stars and especially not the Child. We go back complaining that it doesn’t last. They went back singing praises to God! We do have to go back, but we can still sing the alleluias!”
“Later” by Ann Weems, “Kneeling in Bethlehem”.
Christmas is over and all the leftover decorations are on sale in the stores, I suppose. The Valentine candy will be on display in a few days while candy canes are bargain basement prices. The trashcan is full of scrunched-up wrapping paper. Broken gingerbread men are all that remain on the cookie plate. Some people have already taken down the tree and stashed away all the Christmas decorations.
It makes me sad to put away Christmas. I want to keep playing the music and watching the Christmas lights. I want to keep the spirit of Christmas in my heart and feel the happiness through the new year. My tree will stay up a little longer because I love the lights and the colors of Christmas. I’ll keep playing my Christmas CDs and singing along for a while, because I love Christmas. I love that Christ was born in a stable instead of a palace. I love that Christ chose to die for my sins.
We have much to rejoice about. Christ came as an infant to bring us new life. Isaiah tells us what Christ will be like.
“The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord—and he will delight in the fear of the Lord,” (Isaiah 11:2-3a NIV).
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