Reflections about Christmas I would like to share
They are from the chapter 'Christmas 1945' in the book 'The Mother of Christ' by Caryll Houselander.
"In each of us, just beyond the noise of our outward life, there is some place of silence and darkness, an emptiness where, if we have courage enough, we are alone with ourselves. There in this place of silence, we know that God alone can fill our emptiness, he alone can content us, he alone is our peace.
"It is in this secret place of the soul that Christ wants to be born in us. He wants to be born in us, that through us he may live in this world again and make it new with his new life. Make it young with his youngness, little with his littleness, true with his truth, childlike with his childhood, pure with his purity.
"It is in this dark place of our heart that Christ wants the light of the world to begin to burn and from its burning to radiate, until it shines back from the face of humanity. Here it is that he wants the light to begin to shine in darkness and the life of the world to begin again."
"In each of us, just beyond the noise of our outward life, there is some place of silence and darkness, an emptiness where, if we have courage enough, we are alone with ourselves. There in this place of silence, we know that God alone can fill our emptiness, he alone can content us, he alone is our peace.
"It is in this secret place of the soul that Christ wants to be born in us. He wants to be born in us, that through us he may live in this world again and make it new with his new life. Make it young with his youngness, little with his littleness, true with his truth, childlike with his childhood, pure with his purity.
"It is in this dark place of our heart that Christ wants the light of the world to begin to burn and from its burning to radiate, until it shines back from the face of humanity. Here it is that he wants the light to begin to shine in darkness and the life of the world to begin again."