Twinkling Lights

I love Christmas lights.  One of my favourite December activites is going for a drive after dinner to look at Christmas lights.  I like community light displays.  I like lights on the houses.  I like lights in trees.  I love driving through the country and seeing Christmas lights in the distance on a farm house -- I may not be able to see the house, but the lights show me it's there.

The days this time of year are so short.  Especially here in the north.  It's dark so early and stays dark so late in the morning.  Then comes the Christmas season and there are lights everywhere.  It's always been a sort of reminder for me that the Christmas season is, in fact, about light.  What better way to remember that in this dark time of the year we are celebrating  the coming of the Light of the World.

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light

-Isaiah 9:2a