22/12/2025
Reflections on Christ and Christmas
By Ernest Holmes
From the least to the greatest, the same life runs through all, threading itself in the patterns of our individualities. It is “over all, in all and through all.”
This over-brooding presence, this inner sense of a greater reality bears witness to itself through our highest acts and in our deepest emotions. Who is there who has not at times felt this inner presence? It is impossible to escape our true nature. The voice of Truth is insistent. The urge to unfold is constant. In the long run, each of us will fully express our divinity.
We stand in the shadow of a mighty Presence, while love forever points the way to heaven. Mingled with the voice of humanity is the word of God, for Truth is a synonym for God, and whoever speaks the Truth speaks the word of God. Science reveals eternal principles, mathematics, immutable laws — and illumined minds reveal the Eternal Spirit. Behind all is a unity, through all is a diversity, saturating all is a divinity. …
Christmas is for remembrance. The love manifested through our gifts to each other typifies the offering of Life, the givingness of Spirit to Its creation. The hands of the Eternal are outstretched through our hands, and the heart of the Infinite beats in the human breast. … Only those who give of themselves, withholding nothing, understand giving.
It is not, then, in lavish gifts that we find true giving but in the sweet simplicity of remembrance, in the kindly thought, the tolerant mind and the gentle act. Love alone can give love, sympathy alone can sympathize, and only goodness can really do or be good.
— Excerpted from the December 2025 Science of Mind magazine 🙏
