I hope you are all having a splendid holiday, Christmas or Kwanzaa, gifts or otherwise. It is something like 80 degrees here in Houston--you really can never predict the weather in Texas. Last year it snowed.
I'm back from a semi-disturbing church message that without Christmas there would be no peace in the world. What? I think it has to do with there not being any Christ, Prince of Peace. Hmm... Then the pastor also kept drawing comparisons between darkness and light, winter and summer, cold and warmth. My sis was much offended because she loves the cold. I was annoyed that evangelical language is always so Western-centric. Why doesn't a Chinese church employ culturally resonant material for services, sermons, and songs? Just because Christianity reached Asians through Western avenues doesn't mean it has to be practiced in the same way.
The light blue walls of the sanctuary felt so artificial against the blue sky framed in the windows. At least the sun is out, right?
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i had a similar experience with a Christmas Eve experience. DULL, actually. Life outside of the church walls seemed much more vibrant, celebrative, fun and light...church this year, well, it didn't represent.
i've also decided that Christmas is more about the rest of the Bible (all the family squabbles and dynamics) than the Luke 2 story.
Yeah, the Bible is all drama. There's some stuff that goes down in the Old Testament that is not PG. Makes for some interesting reading though.
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