It was a few days after Christmas. A mother was busy cleaning up the den, putting everything away, taking the Christmas tree down. Her son came in and saw her and said, “Mama, what are you doing?” She said, “I’m putting all our Christmas stuff away.” He asked in reply, “Why are you doing that?” She answered, “So everything will be back to normal again.” His response to that was, “Mama, I don’t want things to get back to normal again.”

On this second Sunday after Christmas, we have the thought in our minds that Christmas is over. There is often the urge, the desire, to pack everything up and get it out of the way. But, sometimes, I think we rush away from it too quickly, do too good a job at cleaning up after it, and in that we run the risk of removing it from our lives.

What if after Chr…