May Love Rest You Merry this Solstice, As Darkness Holds Us in Her Grace
I grew up with a beautiful Solstice tradition: the Blue Christmas service. Each year, on or near the darkest night, our churches would offer a ceremony to remember those who had passed that year and hold space for the specific pain of holidays without loved ones we so sorely miss. Christmas itself named a broader pain, of injustice, of our many earthly wounds, and it offered a word of hope, of healing: a vision and promise of justpeace for all Creation. But Blue Christmas was different. Blue Christmas said, sure – there is much work to do. If we really want to be vessels of a mighty Spirit ...
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