A Christmas Lament

by Brian J. Walsh

I know, I know, Christmas is all about good feelings, family, magnaminity towards the less fortunate, etc., etc., etc. But how do you celebrate Christmas in an empire that has made a blasphemous sham out of that counter-imperial narrative of all counter-imperial narratives – the birth of Jesus? Well, you pray.

That’s what people who are subject to the Kingdom do in the face of the empire. And often that prayer takes the shape of a lament. So at the risk of sounding like Scrooge (who did not, to our knowledge, pray), I offer to you this Christmas lament. Best prayed the day after Christmas.

In painful honesty, let us pray to the Lord together saying,
Lord, still we wait.