Your Christmas tree reminds you to honor the light and goodness in people radically different than you. Dancing with both the light and darkness in others, helps you befriend the complexity within yourself.
Your Christmas tree serves as a tangible symbol encouraging you to embody the light you want to see in the world.
Your Christmas tree calls you to seek out luminous people and experiences, so you might be reminded of the glimmers of goodness surrounding you.
Your Christmas tree invites you to practice self-care to nurture the sometimes dimly flickering candle within your own heart that wants to shine anew.
Your Christmas tree invokes hope in this season of less sunlight. You might feel hungry for the cozy and romantic twinkling lights, because the glow of the tree creates a feeling of ease in your soul.
Your Christmas tree is an opportunity to pay attention to the Moon and Sun who daily light up the sky, even when we are not present to their magnificence.
Your Christmas tree represents light coming into the darkness. Perhaps you allow the Light of the World to hold you in your own dark night of the soul.
If this world feels bleak and you need to find your way back to the ever present stars in the sky, join me in putting up a tree or displaying your Hanukkah candelabrum a little earlier than you usually do.
You can either grow weary and be swallowed up by the darkness or you can keep your lamps trimmed and burning.
Maybe you come back to believing in the collective power of nurturing the candle in you and others. This might be the pathway back to a world aglow where compassion shimmers, peace sparkles, and hope radiates even in the shadowy parts of you and this world.
Just as the Christmas tree illuminates your home, you can be a beacon of light, whose unique flame rekindles light in the world. I challenge you to put your Christmas tree up early this year. This world needs more light.
Allow divine light to wrap its arms around you. Move in closer to see your neighbor’s light. Set this world on fire and let your light shine.
Christy Bonner
November 12, 2025
