On Scrooge’s magical journey, Scrooge sees what in life he has been blind to for so long. Confronted with images of his past, present and future Scrooge reaches a crisis point, yet by being allied and conjoined again with all aspects of his life that he had previously been unwilling to see, Scrooge becomes a new man, reborn of himself or “quite a baby”, as he excitedly notes. Now he can embrace the world instead of shy away from it.
A Christmas Carol, one of the world’s great stories, holds out the equally great hope that each individual is capable of change at the deepest and most spiritual level by first seeing into themselves in order then to reach out to others. And Christmas time is the period of year of all the festivals in the Christian calendar which, because of the coming together of family and friends, offers the greatest opportunity for such human contact.