PODCAST: It’s the season for love and affection
In the spirit of the holiday season, I invite you to reflect on and celebrate how much life means to us.
Not satisfied with the mindless clichés concealing the value of a thoughtful subjective life and glossing the gross injustices that pock and pummel the earth, we choose to acknowledge and confront the chaos that life is: its mysteries, its challenges, its excitements, its contingencies.
In a world where so little is certain, we search for answers. Who are we? Is there deep meaning to our lives? Or not? To where are we being led? What is leading us? Pushing us? Pulling us?
As instances of humanity, inextricably connected with one another, and pledged to transcendence, what must we do?
And as bounded and unique prospects of history’s evolving design of the self, how do we create goals that authenticate our temperaments and our talents, our sensibilities and our circumstances?
We are resolved to make it matter that we lived at all and, in a manner of speaking, we have souls to save or lose. We’ve much to do.
The commitment to confront the bedrock and realities of existence is not too heavy to bear. We can be in creative control of the subjective contents of our minds. We can be artists of our own emotions and curators of the active energy loving expression requires.
We can choose the gentle arts. We can be alive with hope, joy and good will. We can draw on the resilience of the human spirit. We can show love and affection, care and concern, and kindness, kinship and resolution. Such choices, testaments of heart, nerve and compassion, are encouraging and enlightening signals for all who can see.
As always, I am deeply thankful for all who reflect in their daily living the best of transcendent possibility.
May love and affection grace your holidays and gladness and generosity fulfill your new year.