In a world fraying at the seams from war, inflation, politics, hardship, loneliness and despair — we repeatedly reach for hope, like travelers desperately searching for water in an unending desert. This longing only sharpens at Christmas, a haunting reminder that wealth, success and comfort can never fill it.
But Christmas is also a season when light can break into the darkness. That sounds like a sentimental and familiar line from a greeting card only because we’ve grown numb to the symbolism of the holiday and lost the core.
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