Dear ones, near and far,
here’s to wish you a holiday time that illuminates what it will most help you to see, to know, to realize, to experience.
May you know connection and caring, even if you are physically solitary this year, and especially if you are grieving.
May you know courage and compassion as human interactions press against the edges of what you know to be true for you.
May you know joy and delight, if not all the time, in enough heart-opening moments to give your internal alarm systems a rest.
May you know wonder, be vaulted in some unexpected moment into a universe that so transcends you, you cannot help but feel held and at home within the wordless infinity of it all.
May you know love, some elusive and tender piece of love for yourself, first of all, and so for your fellow, fallible human beings, the ones that frustrate you as well as the ones that again and again seem to free you.
May you know peace, at least for a moment or two, and in the folds of your heart where sunlight cannot often reach.
Yes, may you know peace for a time, in the ways that matter.
May you know peace.
with care,
Rev. Kevin