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One of the symbols of the Christmas season is a star. In Russia people would make enormous stars and put them over their isbas, which is what they called their log houses.
The three Magi had come from afar, following a star to find the newborn king, Jesus Christ.
That star is always before us. It is deep and profound in its significance. If we go and follow that star, that one and only star, we too will become a star and others will follow us to the immense Star who is Christ.
And then we will become a flame, for the star is fire and flame and beauty and love and faith and hope. Christ gave his beautiful light of love to this world that he was born to save.
We walk in the revelation of his infinite love that surrounds us and reveals itself wherever we go.
I pray that each and every one of you become what Jesus Christ was on the night he was born: a Child who was a Flame of Love. Dearly beloved, let us be childlike and let us constantly be a star that lights the path of those who seek him.
Excerpted from a talk at spiritual reading
