The Light That Finds Us

A Christmas Reflection

Dear friends,

Whether we embrace it as historical truth or metaphorical wisdom, the Christmas narrative offers us profound insights about hope, renewal, and the persistent way light has of finding its way into even the darkest corners of our world.

Two thousand years ago, in a time when the Roman empire’s shadow stretched across the known world, a child was born in the most impoverished of circumstances.

Today, we don’t need to believe in a literal virgin birth or the star of Bethlehem to recognize the powerful symbolism in the Christmas story. Transformation often enters our world not through grand palaces of power, but through the most unexpected, unconventional doorways.

Illustration by the Author

Consider the context of Jesus’s birth — a time when Emperor Augustus ruled from Rome and King Herod maintained his grip on Judea through fear and manipulation. The parallels to our own time are striking. We too live in an era of empire and excess, where…