The Seventh Day of Christmas: At the threshold

Friends,

“Is it already Dec 31??,” a friend asked surprised. “I am not ready yet!” And still, ready or not, we arrive today on the 7th Day of our journey which is also the last day of the year. I always arrive somewhat melancholic - what about you?

There is a beautiful image for times like this: a threshold. We are standing in-between, the old has not yet fully vanished and the new has not yet fully come. Birth is such a threshold. Christmas is. Easter for sure. And as tradition has it, we walk the threshold towards the new year while also pondering the Divine birth.

And so today, at this last day of the year we invite you for a pause. We hope and pray you can carve out some quiet time for yourself at this threshold weekend, to retreat into yourself, be it at a quiet place, a nature walk, or a cosy spot in front of a window.

We have used different ways to pause when we approach the threshold. My favorite one is to take in the last sunset of the year as we have written it into our program …