December 23, 2006
Person
The picture of Time magazine’s Person of the Year is usually on the front cover. It may be somebody from the Dark Side, or maybe somebody from the Light, or maybe from a side that’s not all that clear. This year, the front cover is a mirror. The Person of the Year is us.
All those wannabes who thought for sure they’d get the honor, got it anyway. Maybe not the way they’d have liked, but mirrors never lie. There they/we are, smack dab in the middle.
It’s good that the honor comes at Christmastime. For though the grafitti says Jesus is the reason for the season, he’s also the reason for us. It is through him that God makes us a new creation. One of our Baptismal Covenant vows affirms that we will seek and serve Christ in all persons. You can’t beat Christmas for a time to remember that and to look always into that mirror in the other and also find ourselves, if only through a glass darkly.