Thankfully I'm home writing... it's been a long while since I sat down to think and to ponder and to write.
Those of you who know me well, know that I'm a kind of melancholy guy. Oh yes, I may appear to be quite jovial and almost happy go lucky, but as my Mexican sisters would say, "Ron, eres tan serio..." (I think you can figure out the translation). I guess I am. I'll provide some further details about those Mexican sisters (and brothers too) later on so you'll understand the entire context - after all, context is everything. I like to think and ponder many things; maybe sometimes too many things!
As another year draws to a close and we prepare to celebrate Christmas and New Years, this is a good time to sit down, get quiet (maybe even alone) and reflect on the past 12 months, perhaps longer.
Christmas evokes that type of solitude and reflection. For thousands of years God promised a Messiah that would not only save men and women from their sins, but in doing so that act of salvation would restore a broken relationship between Creator and creature. Although once created perfect and in the image and likeness of God, Adam and Eve willfully sinned plunging the world and every man and woman who would come after them into a fractured and hurting world. On our own power, we would try to fix the mess and in doing so, the mess would be become messier. None of us can truly restore ourselves and everything attached to us to its original state without outside intervention.
