The Time is Now.

What is the truth of Christmas for you?

My friend Chris sent this quote to me. I thought I'd share it with all of you.

"The joy of Christmas is the intuition that all limitations to growth into higher states of consciousness have been overcome...

...The Divine light cuts across all darkness, prejudice, preconceived ideas, prepackaged values, false expectations, phoniness and hypocrisy. It presents us with the truth. To act out of the truth is to make Christ grow not only in ourselves, but in others. Thus, the humdrum duties and events of daily life become sacramental, shot through with eternal implications. This is what we celebrate in the liturgy. The *kairos,* 'the appointed time,' is *now.* According to Paul, 'Now is the time of salvation,' that is, now is the time when the whole of the divine mercy is available. Now is the time to risk further growth. To go on growing is to be at the cutting edge of human evolution and of the spiritual journey. The divine action may turn our lives upside-down; it may call us into various forms of service. Readiness for any eventuality is the attitude of one who has entered into the freedom of the Gospel. Commitment to the new world that Christ is creating - the new corporate personality of redeemed humanity - requires flexibility and detachment: the readiness to go anywhere or nowhere, to live or to die, to rest or to work, to be sick or to be well, to take up one service and to put down another. Everything is important when one is opening to Christ-consciousness. This awareness transforms our worldly concepts of security into the security of accepting, for love of God, an unknown future. The greatest safety is to take that risk. Everything else is dangerous. "
Keating, Thomas-- The Mystery of Christ: The Liturgy as Spiritual Experience. Continuum, New York. 1996. Pp. 27-28