This is not the shortest or the darkest or the quietest or even the holiest day of the year. But it is the most joyous and the most richly seasonal. Around Christmas Day orbit the lesser holidays that help account for the texture of this season: days of shopping and decorating, the days of Advent and Christmas Eve, the liturgical 12 days that end in Twelfth Night, better known to most of us as Jan. 5.
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Christmas can seem, somehow, outside the sequence of the ordinary year, yet it can also feel like the revolving center, a pivot in feeling as well as time and festivity.
The culture of Christmas — the songbook, the films, the stories, chapter and verse of the nativity — is so intent upon making us feel what we ought to feel (charity, rejoicing, something of the shepherds' awe, the glee of children) that sometimes it can come as a shock when we actually feel those things, even though most of us never reach the ecstatic heights of George Bailey on Christmas Eve or Scrooge on Christmas morning.
Christmas is, for many of us, our only glimpse of what tradition really means. Our lives are, by and large, not the least bit traditional. If it feels sometimes as though Christmas is another country, that's because it is.
This is a day of good cheer, an archaic phrase that comes to life on just this one holiday. There is no need to draw a lesson from Christmas. Life offers us lessons aplenty. It is enough to be here today, and to be of good cheer.
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