Christmas is about eternity since it represents the eternal God coming into a world of time.

Christmas and the View from Eternity

By Don DeMarco, Ph. D.

Perhaps the two most beloved Christmas stories that we see every year on television are Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life. The former involves a man from Hell, Jacob Marley, who shows Ebenezer Scrooge the ruinous future he is preparing for himself and for others. The latter involves an angel from heaven, Clarence Odbody, who shows George Bailey what a wonderful life he has had. In both stories, the order of time is changed so that the trajectory of the two lives can be seen from the perspective of eternity. Also central to the stories are the families of Bob Cratchit and George Bailey. Each person can have a profound effect on others, especially on intimates, according to how he views the significance of his life.

Christmas is about eternity since it represents the eternal God coming into a world of time. It is the conjunction between the timeless and the temporal. It offers us, therefore, an occasion to reflect on our lives and consider where we are going. It beckons us to see our lives in a larger perspective and to think about the relationship between our birth and our destiny. Christ’s birth is inseparable from his destiny. The light He brings into the world is one that illuminates all of human history.

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