Christmas and New Years are both rich with meaning and filled with ornate tradition. Christmas beautifully embodies and subsequently displays a desperately needed hope that something bigger is with us, that ‘God is with us’ despite how terribly difficult our journey might be, how terrifyingly lonely we so frequently feel on the journey, and how suffocatingly hopeless it can all become at times. New Years on the other hand is a seminal time to rally oneself in the waning moments of the year, pull oneself up off the perilous road of the past, wipe off bloodied knees, bind wounded hearts, and set one’s sights anew on the fresh road of future that is about to be birthed.
Both holidays are terribly potent. Each speak directly to some essentially core element of our shared humanity in a manner that shakes awake the deepest longings and rouses the most profound yearnings we will ever feel. Both intimately resonate with the very cry of our souls, and each gives desperately needed meaning and hope to this difficult journey. We yearn for the messages that both embrace and subsequently extol these themes. We literally thirst for these things with a thirst so innately deep we are not entirely convinced that the messages of these holidays could ever quench that thirst despite our desperate hope that they might. And these two potently powerful holidays find their mutual juxtaposition within a week of each other at the close of the year.
not hold. These times of family and reflection dramatically coalesce during this time of year.
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