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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE and its MAGIC of THE THRESHOLD




There are moments that happen that change how you look on life and on what is and is not possible.  
  
You are never the same afterwards.  

 The Nativity was one of those times.


 There is even a word for this situation: “Liminality.” 

“Liminality” is the word for the threshold moment: 

from the Latin root limin, meaning the centerline of the doorway.

  
Liminality is the moment of crossing over. 


It describes the transitional phase of personal change, 

where one is neither in an old state of being nor a new, 

and not quite aware of the implications of the event. 

All the stages of life include liminality


Life is nothing but moments of crossing over. 


Liminality is why we celebrate Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve but not other holidays’ eves.



We celebrate Christmas Eve 


because Jesus is traditionally thought to have been born at midnight.  



And we celebrate New Year’s Eve because midnight is when the year changes. 




Christmas Eve is a threshold moment.




We can choose to stay on the other side of the moment, 


refusing to enter and accept what gifts await us.



After all, for most of the world there is still no room in the Inn for He who breathed the world into existence.



Christmas Eve is the time to reflect on what awaits us beyond whatever threshold we choose to cross ...


to reflect on what thresholds we thought would always be there but now are gone, 


along with the mortal hearts that waited for us beyond them.



Whatever you believe, 


it can be a healing thing to take Christmas Eve to reflect on all the gifts given to you this past year


and on what needs exist in your surroundings that you can be an agent of healing by meeting. 



Christmas Eve revives the wonder of childhood 


where snowflakes sing on their way down to the ground, 


where faeries ice skate on bird baths, 


and magic waits for us to open the door of our hearts to let it in.


HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE, 
MY FRIENDS!


4 comments:

  1. Thanks for this gift, which you give so freely.
    Your work is a blessing Roland!

    The one and only constant I've observed every Christmas eve, is the Mass of Christ.

    Seems so Non-Christ like to observe golden ornaments upon the altar area at st. Peter's Basilica.

    Yet it appears Grandiose. Brings to mind Indiana Jones and his choosing the simple wooden chalice over those adorned with jewels / gems layered upon gold...

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    1. Glittering exteriors are beautiful but not so beautiful as loving hearts, right? Merry Christmas, good friend!

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  2. Christmas Eve is all about crossing over, beginning with God coming to us first.

    Merry Christmas.

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    1. You're right, Diane. He gave us the first and best Christmas gift. May the New Year bring only happiness.

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