TOMORROW’S SUNDAY

IN RESPONSE TO HIS CRUEL REMARKS ABOUT CHRISTMAS, SCROOGE’S NEPHEW DECLARES THAT CHRISTMAS IS:

In Charles Dickens book a ‘Christmas Carol’ the lead character Ebenezer Scrooge asks of his nephew; “What’s Christmas-time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books, and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?” (Excerpt From: Charles Dickens. “A Christmas Carol.” iBooks.) “a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” (Excerpt From: Charles Dickens. “A Christmas Carol.” iBooks.) The Christmas story is a wonderful, magnificent story, it is so much more than a warm and fuzzy story of the birth of a baby boy, it is a rich display of the wonderful, majestic and magnificent love of a God, who stands not above or outside of humanity but who inhabits it in all its grime and pain and suffering. A God who refuses to conform and risks everything in order to demonstrate that when the world is at it’s darkest even the smallest light can dispel it. Dickens in his novel grasps a reality that has passed many of us by, a reality that in this story of God’s coming to earth we see the poorest, most needy and the ostra-