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Friends,
At the edge of the year, on Christmas Eve, I want to think about the tasks ahead of us in the next year, the challenges and their beauty, and to do this, I’ll be investigating with you the gifts of the magi. The Three Kings you have heard know the story through the carol John Henry Hopkins Jr.’s song “Three Kings of Orient” or “We Three Kings” from 1857.

You’ve probably seen them in the past few days in some Christmas pageant or a nativity scene, figures of the three kings kneeling down in the major with their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

There is a deep mystery – not only spiritual, but economic, political, and cultural – here to investigate. Remembering that these gifts were offered in the night, to the poor, let’s think together about the spiritual and social significance, and what we need now.

Because our society is impoverished, in the shadow of the challenge, unable to see the light.

This can hearten us:

The shadows facing us now the almost overwhelming darkened is the confirmation of this world. Since they are the shadows of what is becoming. 

The intensity of the shadows indicate the intensity of the light coming in to be with us.

The light, a new illumination, is It is the revealing of the new world we will create.

Because the political realm is dead, because the economic realm is dead, and because the cultural world is also in its death throes, the task ahead of us is no less daunting a task than the creation of everything.  And we must create everything. Even a thought like that is so egotistical, it’s a totalizing thought, one that can deceive us: as if you or I could have all the answers!

And yet, in each one of us, we must create anew the entire economic, political, and cultural realms. We must remake the entire world on our own, and we must also know that it can’t be done. This sounds lime a radical paradox, but it’s not so crazy – it’s the way a healer thinks, after all: The patient shows up and the practitioner thinks, I will save this person and at the same time, I cannot save everyone. 

But let’s talk about what these realms are a bit, how they relate to the gifts, and what inspiration we can find there for connecting and creating.

This is a probably the episode of most radical propositions. I hope you enjoy it and find inspiration in it.

Love and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,
CH