Christmas: A Reminder That Only Love Is Real

The other day my computer froze, and as with any electronic equipment the best course of action was to turn it off for a moment and then turn it back on again. To me, that’s Christmas. If for even one day we can have a break in the action – turning off the usual resistances to love that keep us stuck in patterns of separation and fear – then perhaps we can have a chance to start over. To begin again. To change the circuitry in our brains that spew out constant excuses for why love is not the answer . . . when in fact, we know it is.

This Christmas, for all kinds of reasons love can seem hard. Our personal relationships as well as politics and world events are riddled with walls of division. Those walls keep our hearts in isolation and our lives in the grip of sadness and fear. This is, once again, the dark night of the human soul. Christmas is a Light that appears in the darkness of our inner sky, beckoning us to be the people we are called to be, Jesus an innocent child within our consciousness guiding us to the actualization of our more powerful and loving selves.

. . . At this darkened time, may we all remember – thinking of those who have hurt us, as well as those we have hurt – that the deeper truth of the soul is that we love each other. Beneath the pain, beneath the suffering, beneath the cruelties of this world, only Love is Real.

– Marianne Williamson
Excerpted from Christmas and Hanukkah
and the Coming of Light
Transform
December 25, 2024

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• 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

See also:
• In the Chill of Winter, a Prayer of Light and Love
• Shining On . . . Into the New Year
• Aligning With the Living Light
• The Light Within
• Honoring the Darkness While Remembering the Light
• Being the Light
• The Mystic Jesus: “A Name for the Unalterable Love That All of Us Share”

Image: Michael J. Bayly.