I had hoped to write a full Christmas-related blog post to publish today, but my life has been quite busy these past few months and I just haven’t had the time. So in lieu of a regular post, I thought I’d write a short message to you all, expressing my gratitude.

Whether you’ve been following this blog since I started it ten months ago, or you’ve just recently found it, thank you sincerely for giving me a chance to share with you some of the truth, the wisdom, and the joy that I’ve discovered since being drawn back to God. I hope that what I’ve written here has benefitted all of you in some small way, and that I can continue to do so for many more years.

I hope, too, that you’ve had a wonderful Christmas. Today, we celebrate our Creator, the eternal Logos, lowering himself to our level, entering into our sufferings and our struggles, so that these sufferings and struggles may be redeemed — so we may know that they have meaning, that the trials of this life are not for naught.

Even more importantly, though, he came to show us how to unite ourselves with him.

“Exiled from the earth, our Lord is born under the earth, for the stable was in a cave — and there he shook the earth to its very foundations.

Because he’s born in a cave, all who wish to see him must bend, must stoop; the stoop is the mark of humility.

The proud refuse to stoop.

Therefore, they miss divinity.

Those, however, who are willing to risk bending their egos to go into that cave, find that they are not in a cave at all; but they are in a universe where sits a babe on his mother’s lap.

The babe who made the world.”

— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

Let us all continue to humble ourselves, that we may grow closer and closer to God.

Merry Christmas, everyone!