Our Christmas trees want to talk to us
The greater darkness of December can take its toll and strengthen what afflicts us.
Our Christmas trees beg to differ. Their branches are full, leafy, strung with lights.
The brightness is defiant.
We want a perfect world.
But that is not always what we get.
We may experience catastrophic weather; a pandemic; threatened health; overstressed work, dipping finances, struggling relationships and society and world either slightly or wildly insane.
Our Christmas trees glow.
Their lights whisper;
“Give all the things that afflict you their due, but do not give them your soul.
You are more than the surrounding darkness.”