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I went to church today.
There was no choir. There were no pews. There was no sermon. There was no invocation, except the squealing delight of children. There was no real benediction, but for the promises of those who had gathered to stay more in contact.
There was no threat of damnation, nor promise of streets of gold. There was so much contentment in being together that intimidation was unnecessary, and coercion, meaningless.
You see, I’m a father.
As a father, I do not evaluate my children by how much they adore me or praise my name. I determine the health of my children by how much they love each other–because it would be easy for them to despise their siblings so as to gain my favor, and perhaps, secure a sweeter inheritance.
So praising Daddy does not mean nearly as much as honoring one another.
In the church service this morning, there was respect for humanity. There was anticipation in the eyes of those who were giving, and a nervous jubilance twitching in the fingertips of those who were preparing to receive. An electricity filled the air that could only be adequately fueled by a perpetual flow of sweets and treats.
It was a worship of the Christ child–a salute to a simple birth, which simply ushered in the possibility of “peace on Earth, good will toward men.”
It was an intergenerational feast day of emotion and anticipation, culminating in the removal of all vexation, curses and grudges.
It was the kind of meeting of souls that causes the angels to sit back in awe, pricked in the heart with a bit of jealousy over not being human.
For we do everything best just as we do everything worst. We are God’s creation, who knows both the knowledge of good and the depths of evil.
Oh, but when we want to be good…we can be amazing.
We can bring tears to our Heavenly Father’s eyes when we tenderly take our human flesh and extend it from His mind and soul to reach into the hearts and lives of others.
Today I went to church. Some people would call it Christmas morning.
The good news is that Christmas morning is church.
The better news is, the more we take every church service and make it like Christmas morning, the more blessed the world would be.
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