December 23, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Christmas: It’s the best of times and the worst of times — to borrow a phrase from the creator of that greatest of Christmas characters, Ebenezer Scrooge.
Come to think of it, Scrooge himself personifies the best and worst of this singular Christian feast.
A selfish, grasping man, he was shocked into conversion when the ghost of Christmas future revealed to him how empty and loveless his life was.
But how can Christmas not be the best of times and the worst of times, as that’s the world Christ came to redeem.
A world where Joseph couldn’t find a place to stay in Bethlehem with Mary ready to give birth, but an innkeeper mercifully opened the stable.
A world where Western society embraces the diabolical madness of abortion, where children are torn limb by limb from the womb, but where people try in every way to offer love and support.
A world where Mary Wagner saves a baby, and is locked up in jail for Christmas for doing so.
A “mixed up, muddled up, shook up world” where girls will be boys and boys will be girls, as the Kinks sang
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