With Christmas rapidly approaching, the season can quickly become engulfed in present madness, forgetting what the day is supposed to be about.  Keynoter Daniel O'Leary notices this disturbing trend, noting how easy it is to be seduced by the season.  He writes:

Christmas disturbs adults with profound dilemmas for the soul. How do we resolve that tension between the real and the really real, that call from another place to be answered in this place? Are we open to sacrificing what we are, for what we may become? These quiet questions, all too easily stifled in the frantic lists of Christmas expectation, still carry, for the open soul, a disturbing persistence.

 O'Leary isn't the only one aware, he quotes in his article Ron Rolheiser, "God help any of us if we become so dulled or self-protective, that we are no longer soul-chained to worlds beyond us."

While we keep on trying to trust in this perennial promise of peace, in the creative absence between the "now" and the "not yet", we will try to believe with all our hearts this Christmas, that a blossoming of the individual soul, a transformation of our society and planet, is already happening; that this holding together of "the seen and the unseen" is secure within us.

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