John O’Donohue on What Christmas Unveils

At Christmas, time deepens. The Celtic imagination knew that time is eternity in disguise. They embraced the day as a sacred space. Christmas reminds us to glory in the simplicity and wonder of one day; it unveils the extraordinary that our hurried lives conceal and neglect.

We have been given such immense possibilities. We desperately need to make clearances in our entangled lives to let our souls breathe.

– John O’Donohue
Excerpted from To Bless the Space Between Us:
A Celtic Blessing for the Seasons
2008

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Christmas: A Reminder That Only Love Is Real
• The Christmas Miracle
• Christmas for Mystics
• Hope and Courage – Christmas 2024
• Christmas 2023 – Reflections, Activism, Art, and Celebrations
• In This Time of Liminal Space (2022)
• Christmas 2020: A Time of Loss and Grief, Gratitude and Hope
• The Joy of Christmas (2019)
• Christmas 2018 – Reflections and Celebrations
• Christmas in America, 2018
• Christmas 2017 – Reflections and Celebrations
• Christmas 2016 – Reflections and Celebrations
• Christmas 2015 – Reflections and Celebrations
• Christmas 2014 – Reflections and Celebrations
• Celebrating the Coming of the Sun and the Son
• Christmastide Approaches
• Something to Cherish (2012)
• A Christmas Message of Hope . . . from Uganda (2011)
• John Dear on Celebrating the Birth of the Nonviolent Jesus
• Clarity and Hope: A Christmas Reflection (2007)
• A Christmas Reflection by James Carroll

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