As the year winds down this week, I am basking in the warmth and glow of my Church Family’s recent Christmas’ Sabbath services. The common sharing of our stories, children singing, voices raised, young and old joining together to simply acknowledge the birth of our Savior. I want to capture this feeling, I want to bottle up that special sense of joy, peace, and love to last the whole year through.

I’m disappointed in myself because it is so easily forgotten, the light so often dims as the year progresses. But wait! It really doesn’t have to. It shouldn't. Sure, it’s not like everyday is Christmas, and sure, life comes at us in succession of endless waves crashing over us; but I should know better.

It may not be Christmas everyday, but every day, Christ is to be invited into our hearts, our lives, our families, our church, and into our world. Everyday, we can live in the assurance of our risen Lord. Everyday we can acknowledge the promises of Jesus, that His Word created the world, that He physically joined our world to live with us, in all our joys, our pain, and our disappointments.

This is a challenge for all believers, C. S. Lewis knew this challenge very well, writing, “It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists of shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice … letting that quieter life come flowing in … coming in out of the wind.”

I like that sentiment, “Come in out of the wind.” For a heart centered on Christ, everyday can be Christmas.

—Dr. Bill Pritchard