Read this bit from C.S. Lewis's book. This was really good.
There are days when we feel like every day is Winter, cold and hopeless. We feel like there will never be an end to Winter, but yes, spring is coming soon. Christ is coming soon, to deliver us from this cold, miserable and dark world.
THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE, p. 19:
"The White Witch? Who is she?
"Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb. It's she that makes
it always winter and never Christmas; think of that!"
"How awful!" said Lucy.
COMPANION TO NARNIA by Paul Ford:
Father Christmas -- A huge, bearded man in a bright red robe whose appearance
signals the end of the Hundred Years of Winter, during which time "it was
always winter but Christmas never came." He is "big and glad and real," not
just funny and jolly like the Father Christmas or Santa Clause we know in the
modern world. He brings gifts...tools, not toys...In an interesting parallel
to the White Witch, Father Christmas too arrives in a sleigh pulled by
reindeer, but he is there to tell them that Aslan is on the move, the spring
will come again, just as Christmas is the commemoration of the birth of
Christ. Father Christmas is a hieroglyph of the joy that Aslan brings.
"On Christmas Day, C. S. Lewis joined the church" --
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