The greeting comes from the 1942 song by Bing Crosby. It's light and cheery. And all about Santa Claus coming down the chimney, encouraging us to leave a peppermint stick for old Saint Nick. Don't get me wrong. I like Santa Claus and I like Bing Crosby, but we live in a time where darkness seems to surround us.
Indeed, tomorrow will be the darkest day of the year. Darkness is not easy to overcome. It needs more than just a greeting of happy holidays. It is instead, our faith traditions that declare the ways light will overcome darkness and the culture wars that happy holidays engenders isn't helpful. With Hanukkah and Diwali past, Christmas next week, and Eid to look forward to, finding ways to embrace the hope our faith traditions live on is the best way to march through the darkness we find ourselves in. This is Dr. Scott Morris for Church Health.
