It’s Christmas Day. We celebrate the birth of the child, we celebrate light overcoming darkness. It is much more than just one day. Christmas traditionally stands outside of ordinary time, a season that begins with Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and extends for yet another twelve, the Twelve Days of Christmas you know from the old song. If the weeks ahead of Christmas were packed with hectic preparations, now you can do things in your own time. It’s a wonderful time to bake Christmas cookies, to enjoy the lights and decorations, to visit with friends and family, to read A Christmas Carol and A Child’s Christmas in Wales and to watch your favorite Christmas movies with heaping bowls of popcorn. Or to do any of the things that make you happy, for that matter. This is your time to enjoy and to feel not rushed. We’re just beginning.
Image: The Christmas celebration at Old Fezziwig’s, from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The engraving is by John Leech and is from an 1843 edition of the book, with the more interesting title and subtitle of A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.