December 21, 2017: Del Rio News-Herald * Letter to the Editor * Yes, Regina, there is a CHRIST (Adaptation of "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"

Letter to the Editor

Yes, Regina, there is a CHRIST 

(Adaptation of “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”)

Dear Editor, 

I’m 8 years old.

Some of my friends say there’s no CHRIST whose birth we celebrate on Christmas Day.

My Daddy says, “If you see it in the Riverville Herald-News it’s so.”

Please tell me the truth; is there a CHRIST?

Regina Regalos

2017 Nativity Boulevard

Dear Regina,

Your friends are wrong! They’ve been affected by the secularism of a secularist age. They don’t believe in the historical reality that CHRIST was born in Bethlehem over two thousand years ago.

Yes, Regina, there’s a CHRIST! HE existed and HE exists today because there’s another day we celebrate, Easter, when CHRIST who came to free us from sin and death, miraculously rose from the dead and ascended into heaven where HE reigns until HIS second coming and our the final judgment day, when we will be with HIM or not with HIM, for all eternity.

Sadly! How dreary would be the world if there were no CHRIST. It would be as dreary as if there were no Regina’s. There would be no faith then, to believe in HIS existence. We should have no fulfillment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light which fills the world would be extinguished.

Nobody sees CHRIST, but that’s no sign that there’s no CHRIST. The most real things in the world are those that no one can see. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

There’s a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest person, nor even the united strength of all the strongest people that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. 

Is CHRIST real? Yes, CHRIST lives, and HE lives forever! A thousand years from now, no, ten times ten thousand years from now, CHRIST will continue to bring joy to the hearts of all who believe in HIM.

Merry Christmas!

Marian Casillas, Ed.D. 

Del Rio