We are being asked to imagine ourselves joining hands and becoming a circle around our planet and through space and time. (Unsplash/Jude Beck) A COVID Christmas, almost an oxymoron. It is hard getting your head around it. All the elements of what has become identified with Christmas, or Hannukah, or Kwanzaa shopping endlessly for gifts, gatherings of family and friends for meals, attending crowded religious services, visiting folks you haven t seen for a while we are being asked to forgo for the sake of the common good.
This moment, which demands we stop doing the usual celebrations, provides an opportunity to awaken to another invitation. If we don t stop what we always do, we may not see that which is also here waiting for us to respond.