{"id":6609,"date":"2025-12-09T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:34:02","slug":"how-to-find-christmas-magic-when-everything-feels-broken-and-hopeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/how-to-find-christmas-magic-when-everything-feels-broken-and-hopeless\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Christmas Magic When Everything Feels Broken and Hopeless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No matter your circumstances, Christmas is the way of hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Incarnation-blog.steveblais-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Finding Christmas magic in 2025\" class=\"wp-image-6619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Incarnation-blog.steveblais-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Incarnation-blog.steveblais-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Incarnation-blog.steveblais-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Incarnation-blog.steveblais.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A surprise gift waits for those willing to unwrap the mystery in 2025\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Logical?&nbsp; No, Christmas is illogical.&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t make sense that God would pick one point in time to intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes even less sense to arrive as a baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Tournier, in his book, <em>Guilt and Grace, <\/em>said, \u201cThe incarnation reveals the paradoxical inversion of all things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInversion\u201d means to turn upside down.&nbsp; Inside out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s Christmas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The topside of heaven is brought to the downside of earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is not . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>up somewhere<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>out somewhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>. . . hidden by clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He enters our world as a baby.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time in history, women and men look down to see God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He who spoke worlds into existence cries at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who would ever think God comes like this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, when you think about it, it makes more sense for God to march in as&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a king holding up equality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a scientist curing our diseases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a business leader making markets fruitful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-christmas-inversion\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Christmas inversion<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, he slips in as a baby so that everyone can see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He goes to school in Nazareth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, God goes to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learns to speak Hebrew.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He didn\u2019t know that?<\/em>&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He knew everything but laid it all aside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp; Philippians 2:7, Message<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He became like us so we could become like him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God works in a carpenter shop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, he knows your job is tedious.&nbsp; Tiresome.&nbsp; Cold days.&nbsp; Hot days.&nbsp; Outdoors.&nbsp; Indoors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, God comes into our world as Jesus the carpenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>God works building a house of stone.&nbsp; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God works digging a foundation.&nbsp; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God works dealing with difficult people, people who don&#8217;t like the way he built the house.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>God . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>works<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>laughs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>weeps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>suffers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>and rises from the dead for . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>our hope <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>our best  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>our future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-faith-sets-the-direction-we-look\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Faith sets the direction we look<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why it\u2019s so depressing to be an atheist because the only direction an atheist looks is the natural world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, a theist sees the natural and the supernatural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bethlehem-iStock-133976176--1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise over Bethlehem Christmas\" class=\"wp-image-2290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bethlehem-iStock-133976176--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bethlehem-iStock-133976176--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bethlehem-iStock-133976176--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bethlehem-iStock-133976176-.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sunrise over Bethlehem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, God made the supernatural world visible in Jesus Christ.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And because of that, Christmas is filled with so much potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone said a pessimist blows out any candle so they can enjoy the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God help us to not blow out the candle this Christmas.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God help us to light the candle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cIn him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 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