Christmas is for hoping in Christ’s return

“Whenever there is disaster,” he said, “it means a new day, a new life.” When he saw the tree decorated with the faces of the dead, he cried, he said. But he was where he belonged, he said. “We don’t have anything else,” he said, “just to pray and continue.”

– A young Iraqi Christian on Christmas Eve, commenting on the slayings of Christians by terrorists in Baghdad.

Christmas is for hoping in Christ’s return