Archive for December 2017

Not Joyful, Not Triumphant, But Determined

We all want most at Christmas to be cared for and reassured like the children we were when we first came to love the feast. But as grownups we shoulder the task of being Santa Claus, the nurturer rather than the nurtured, a task passed on from generation to generation. And this dark year we need to be Santa in a much larger sense,