Great Editorial

The National Post has a great Christmas editorial today, I highly recommend reading it:

But what if it were good news? What if a light were to come into the darkness, and the darkness were not able to overcome it? That is the good news of Christmas as Saint John tells us. Into all the world's dark places, and into the deeper darkness that lurks in the heart of man, a light has come.

Christians proclaim at Christmas this good news. Candles are placed in winter windows and pilgrims make their way to Midnight Mass -- in the darkness the light is sought. There is good news and it too remains secret at first. The birth of the newborn king, the eternal Son of the Father come in the flesh, the long-promised messiah, a mighty redeemer -- this was a secret at first, known to Mary and Joseph and the angels and the shepherds. The rest of the world took no notice of what happened that night in the little town of Bethlehem.