Christmas is a time to get "hooked" on Jesus. And that is a condition from which you will need no withdrawal. A Catholic Sister, who is blind, told me she has an incurable disease. I thought she was going to elaborate on her blindness which came as a result of diabetes. Rather she said, "I have the Jesus disease." Then she went on to say that she wanted no cure for that state of being.

However, we will often have to admit that there is a post-Christmas slump. It is a bit of a let-down after a season’s high. In the fourteenth century Thomas Tusser wrote:

At Christmas play and make good cheer,

For Christmas comes but once a year.

So it does. Once a year we can crawl out of the dark caves of selfishness and blink our eyes at a day of cheer and good-will. We show kindness to those we might otherwi…