From the Principal’s Desk 2.17

Merry Christmas Dear Friends,

The final installment of my thoughts on Christmas this year deals with ‘where’.

So where did Christ come?  He came at the center of the world, the middle of the star, the highest mountain on earth.  If you know Bethlehem you might think that I am all wrong. It is a tiny village but consider Micah 5:2   "But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrata, Too little to be among the clans of Judah, From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, From the days of eternity."

In a very strange way it is not the location that tells us where Christ came; the location indicates where he comes.  Not to storied pomp and richest splendor, not to modern homes with central heat, but to a humble non-descript stable filled with fresh straw and warmed by the animals in it.  Yet of all the birthplaces in all the world, of all the wondrous temples and palaces, of all the hospitals and all the homes, there has never been and never will be a place that is more ‘where’ than Bethlehem. 

From Bethlehem the journey begins, a journey that leads right through all of our hearts.  For Christ must be born in our hearts and in the hearts of all our children if we are to experience a true Christmas.  He will come to a humble heart, not a proud one, to a person who is going to kneel in adoration before the might and power of a baby, who happens to be God! He will make that heart a sacred place worthy of Heaven.  The lack of storied pomp present at Bethlehem gives us all hope for He will come, if we have but the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

O Holy Child of Bethlehem,
    Descend to us, we pray!
Cast out our sin and enter in,
    Be born in us to-day.
We hear the Christmas angels,
    The great glad tidings tell;
O come to us, abide with us,
    Our Lord Emmanuel!

And again Merry Christmas and May the New Year be Blessed,

Timothy Gallic

Principal, Holy Family High School

303-410-1411

PS Of course I welcome comments, questions, concerns and cares but I also welcome smiles and laughter and a good story but come what may send them all in!