Fourth Day of Christmas

Fourth Day of Christmas – December 29
At some point in our journey we each enter into the depths of despair because of humanity’s lack of humanity. We’ve only to briefly examine our history as a Church or a nation to see the hypocrisy. Or perhaps we find it closer to home. If we are to become fully human we have to enter into this despair. Not just see it intellectually, not merely acknowledge our inhumanity. We have to, at some point, experience it so personally that we intimately feel both its victim and perpetrator. We have to lose sight of hope. This is the fourth gift of Christmas – despair at humanity’s inhumanity to humanity. Merry Christmas!
Patrick