West Pines Community Church

The Christmas season is festive. There are strings of lights wrapped around our houses. We import evergreen trees from distant forests and temporarily install them into our houses and then drape them in bright colored ornaments. There are delicious delicacies that we only eat this time of year. Not to mention parties and presents and family in from out of town. There is a magic to the Christmas season. It is a twinkling distraction. It lets us temporarily escape into a winter wonderland. It brings a glimmering escape from the weight of life. But what if Christmas was more than just consuming festivities? What if it didn’t simply distract us from our weariness but provides something much more? Christmas isn’t a gingerbread latte. That does little for those who are doubting, broken, lonely, or lost. What this weary world needs is a Thrill of Hope!