Merry Christmas!

Christmas Day is “No Time For A Sermon.”

No, it is not that there is no time for a sermon because the choir sang so many beautiful Christmas songs. It is not because there is no time for a sermon because it took so long to seat the “Christmas crowd.” It is not because the critters in the “live” nativity scene got loose and ate all the Christmas cookies for coffee hour.

The reason that on this Sunday, on Christmas Day, there is “no time for a sermon” is because on Christmas Day there is only time for each of us to discover “a silence in which another voice may speak” (Mary Oliver, “Praying”). Today is the time for us to FEEL the gift of Christmas from the top of our heads to the tip of our toes, not “hear” about it with our ears.

The gift of Christmas is something that …