Someday, there will be a last Christmas. Christ will return, and there will be no more Christmases - or perhaps, no more secular Christmas.
Christmas as we know it is almost a historical anomaly. The Jews of old did not know. Christians up to the early 20th century do not know it as we know it - in fact, they must look at wonder at what it has become.
How will we relate to those who have not experienced what the commercialism, the secularism was like?
How will the Incarnation be remembered in Heaven? With celebration of course -and we may even hear the stories of the principals involved.
But how much of what we now do will pass away as even a steel building does in the face of a hurricane, leaving nothing but beach and water? Knowing that, how much of what we make Christmas is contained in that building?
Can we explain to those who truly know the meaning of Christmas how we held Christmas? Will we say it with pride or shame?
The Last Christmas will come, eclipsed by the Second Coming. If this were the last Christmas, would you be ready?
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