🎄 TREE 712: Jesus was not born on Christmas day
TREEpeat 66
Nobody knows when Jesus was born. The best research I’ve seen puts his birth sometime in October, although a spring birth is a possibility too. So why do we celebrate on 25 December?
A common answer is that Christians in Europe wanted to get the upper hand on older religions by hijacking solstice and Yule celebrations. That may be true.
There’s another answer that I really like. Christmas comes three or four days after the shortest day of the year. It’s just enough time to notice that the days are getting a little longer. We celebrate Christmas as soon as we can see light returning to our world. (It’s a big deal when you live way up north.)
It’s easy to spot the darkness, to see
the things that are messed up and broken.
The true gift is to see the light,
the hope, the revolutionary idea
when it is barely visible.
Practice recognising new light.
It will give you more joy in life,
and a competitive edge in business.
You will become one of the people
who inspire hope and improve the world.
I don’t know what Adobe Firefly’s deal is. I asked for this: ‘photo of baby Jesus in a manger flanked by Mary and Joseph; steampunk’. The AI was all, You said Gary, right?
Joseph: Isn’t he beautiful!
Gary: Well, he’s got your feet, so…
Grow slowly
Jeff
Love the picture. All hail the Virgin Gary
Jesus certainly has raised a ruckus in history, His story. The Light is Life, breath. I love the festive colors and aliveness that comes with December. The city I live in has Glow Rides of atv’s in the streets, ice rink in the park and bands galore. The desert speaks!