Hearts Opened To Love
December 14, 2022
As a child growing up, our family loved watching Christmas movies together. We would take turns picking out some ofthe classic movies and sitting down in the living room to watch them and get in the Christmas spirit. Every year we would watch A Christmas Carol and take the journey with Ebeneezer Scrooge through the past, present, and future. We would usually pick the 1984 version starring George C. Scott as Scrooge.
When I was young, I always hated when we got to the part where the “Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come” entered the scene. After seeing the way that Ebeneezer Scrooge treated people in the past and present, I understood that the ghost was simply showing him the consequences of his actions, but as a kid it made the future seem so scary. I think that’s how many of us feel; the future is unknown, it’s mysterious, and it can be scary.
I wonder if that’s how Mary and Joseph felt that first Christmas…