This is the irrational season, when love blooms bright
and wild! Had Mary been filled with reason, there’d have been no room for the
child
Madeleine
L’Engle
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‘Tis the season to be….
Jolly?
Happy?
Reflective?
Ah, ‘tis the season to be confused
Totally
Seriously
Confused
there is little or nothing
in this birth
this child
which makes sense
which is rational
not in the birth
not in the life
not in the death
and why does such irrationality persist?
man and the sacred in one child
power and generosity
wisdom and simplicity
hate and love
death and life
in our world of dualism
and duels
there is no room for such foolishness
no room for such contradictions
the human cannot contain the sacred
one cannot be wholly divine and wholly human
one cannot see that which one should abhor
and accept
one cannot see those steep in failure and sin
and love
one cannot create life
through death
and yet
this is the irrational season
when duality is challenged
threatened
we try to make it about dualism
and create wars on Christmas
and become entrenched and embittered
but in the end
in the beginning
it is all about
the
child
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