My Christmas Wish for You
By: Militsa Cuevas
Tags: Christmas, Family, Holiness, Gifts, Wishes

Photo by Valentin Petkov on Unsplash

I am here this morning thinking of what I would like to say to you on the Sunday before Christmas.

Our common experience of 2020 has been the unknown, the uncontrollable, and unfathomable. It is a complete upheaval for us because we are used to stability or its veil. Our sense of normalcy has been upended. But for a large part of humanity, this has been their reality. We are now most acutely aware of our desire for health, safety, stability, peace, decency, freedom for our loved ones and ourselves. The same life elements immigrants and refugees have been seeking. And fellow citizens in trying to hold on to their own space within their own home country.

This is not what I write about in the Sunday Newsletter. All of us here are seeking peace. We are looking to calm down anxieties from this illness, the insecurity it brings with it in terms of economy, jobs, quality of life, and relationships. The national and geopolitical aspects occurring now are stressful, to say the least. We have discovered our country is as vulnerable as we are. It is all too much, but there is strength in the peace we seek.

We must, and will, carry on by doing our part. We each decide what our part is. My part is to remain calm, be kind, be as generous as I can be within so many opportunities. To be fair, be courageous, and to stand in my integrity. Be upright about not only my rights but of others’ as well. To be empathetic. To wholeheartedly want for all others the same as I fervently wish for my family.

Christmas has enormous religious, theological significance, but it is also a family story. It is a story of a family running away from danger in their land, seeking refuge for themselves and their soon to be born child. They simply wanted to be safe, have a chance at life and all that entails. They were experiencing fear, insecurity, political problems beyond their control, fatigue.

I know this is like preaching to the choir. Those who get it, get it. Those who don’t most likely won’t. But then, there is faith and experience. Some people do open up and reach out to understand what is uncomfortable for them. Many times the next generation sees and understands what the one before refuses. Here, now, within, I look through myself like one does through drawers. Looking through to find what I can do to make things a little better and a little better next.

I can give encouragement. I can give a moment of peace and solace. I can remind you that you are loved and precious in so many ways. I can try to reassure you that you have been dealing with this day by day, and you will deal with this day by day — therefore, you are capable. And when you have come through the other side, you will be stronger and proud of yourself. You will also, hopefully, most likely, come through with an expanded braver heart.

What can I truthfully say to you this Sunday before Christmas? I can tell you my wish for you on this very particular Christmas eve.

On this Holy Night, I wish for you…

A quiet night to contemplate and pray.

May you feel the Holiness of your Soul and be glad for this.

May you feel the calm and the peace of its eternity.

May you sit with it in beautiful silence.

May you make peace with your vulnerability and feel in your bones those of others as well.

May this expand your Love.

May this fill you with Hope.

May this fill you with Strength.

May you be in awe of Life, of the Heavens, and of Faith.

May you be joyful in your Love of Life, in your Communion with Spirit.

May you be committed to being that Love here on Earth- day by day.

On this Holy Night, may you be the gift born.

From our free Sunday Newsletter 12/20/20 edition aquietthought.com