Many
of us celebrate Christmas alone. This may be the first time for us,
or an odd set of circumstances this year, or an every year thing.
For us who are alone, Christmas can be a great
blessing. The solitude we have can offer us the grace to receive the
gift of Christ's coming in a very special way. We may be tempted to
be discouraged or quite down in our aloneness, but that really is a
temptation. It is a temptation to turn our focus in on ourselves rather
that to let ourselves be contemplative at the time of Christmas. To
act against this temptation is to open ourselves to great graces these
days.
The first grace we might have is time.
The
second great grace we might be given is the ability to enter into relationships
with these special persons in the story of our salvation.
Perhaps
the greatest grace of our aloneness will be the gift of grateful surrender.
clipped from: www.creighton.edu