This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

Caldwell’s line distills Christmas into a single spiritual assurance: the season proclaims companionship rather than isolation. Read in a Christian key, “never alone” points to the Incarnation—God’s presence entering ordinary human life—and to the continuing nearness of grace, community, and consolation. More broadly, the sentence functions as a secular moral: Christmas rituals (family gatherings, charity, shared stories) counter the modern experience of loneliness by reaffirming belonging. The phrasing as “the message” suggests an attempt to strip away commercial or sentimental trappings and return to an essential claim about hope and presence.