In the same way that Christmas contains a deeper spiritual message within the various external traditions of gift giving, festive meals, eggnog, roasting chestnuts and decorations, so do the colors “green” and “red.”
The color green represents the sprouting of new spiritual thoughts in our mind. Green is the color of the plant kingdom, which emerges from the dead of winter, as the light of the spring sun gets stronger. Similarly, new thoughts arise in our minds as we celebrate the Lord’s Advent of new “light” coming into the world.
Red symbolizes love. New spiritual thoughts need love’s warmth to continue to grow (just like plants also need the sun’s vernal heat). So the colors green and red symbolize the birth of new spiritual activity in our minds and hearts, as we worship the birth of the baby Jesus in the world.
Indeed, this miraculous birth gains deeper meaning if we allow the Lord to be born within our hearts and minds. This is what we do when we follow the Lord’s teachings. Christmas is a game-changer.
The Lord’s birth represents our rebirth.
That fact that we use “red” and “green” for the colors of Christmas is no accident. It is the result of angelic and heavenly influences that flow down into the instinctive operations of the human mind.
So have a very merry (and deeper) Christmas!
