I’m not a Christian, but I’ve always thought the nativity star was a greater symbol of hope than the cross.
I understand the meaning of the cross is to remind people the messiah died for the sins of others. But a message of hope, love, virtue and peace match a star heralding a new beginning, rather than a dying man on a cross.
Just an opinion. Not a criticism.
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The Cross would definitely seem to be the commemoration of a more dreary event...
But it actually marks the fulfillment of hinted-at promises / prophesies through the actual life and words and work of Jesus.
In terms of your looking to the star...the birth might be hopeful, but remember that the births of Beethoven, Einstein, Madison, Tesla, Clemens were also hopeful, as well as those of Hitler, Stalin, Osama bin Laden, Dahmer, Charles Manson. It is only through those lives being lived that we find out how the hope of the birth worked out.
