Christmas Eve Musings

In the late evening hours of Christmas Eve, I finally put up my Christmas tree! Honestly, I thought I’d skip it this year. 😟

Seriously, with everything going on in the world at this time, including right here in my city and neighborhood, I just wasn’t feeling any Christmas “cheer.”

So I decided to focus instead on the Christmas spirit and its call to be a light in the darkness; to birth, in other words, the Christic light of transformation in and through our lives. And what better symbol is there of this beautiful and transforming love-light than a well lit-up Christmas tree!?

And so here it is! . . . And may we all be open to being light-bearers this Christmas . . . and throughout the New Year. ☀️💗

For the previous Wild Reed post that explores the history of the Christmas tree, click here.

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Earlier this evening I attended a lovely Christmas Eve gathering hosted by my friends Joan and Matt. Following are some pics.

I close with author and former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson’s 2025 Christmas Eve reflection . . .





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

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”

Images: Michael J. Bayly.