If this year didn’t go as planned for you – maybe your career hit a wall, your business stalled, or you’re just tired in your bones – you’re in good company. It’s been chaotic; the world’s been noisy and tumultuous, and that background static affects us as we work toward our goals.
This has been a particularly sad stretch.
And as painful as it is, we continue to move forward as best we can.
Therefore, I’m focusing on what matters most.
I invite you to do the same.
Think about what you want and what you wish for.
Not just in your work, but in your world.
Here’s what’s on my wish list:
✨ I want health for all of us.
Not just good health, but health care. No one should have to choose between their prescriptions and their mortgage.
✨ I want peace – the kind where kids grow up with safety instead of sirens.
Where disagreements don’t destroy relationships. Where the news is boring because nothing terrible happened.
✨ I want sanity (remember that?).
When morals mattered, and civility was the goal. I’d like that back, please.
✨ I want kindness.
Simple, everyday, radical kindness. The kind that demonstrates patience in traffic, listens during conflict, and gives grace when someone’s struggling.
As we light the candles, trim the trees, and maybe even both (yes, we have a menorah and a Christmas tree at my house; if the rabbi asks, just tell them it’s my Hanukkah bush…)
As we hold different traditions in my home (I’m an Interfaith Minister, and Christmas trees are really a Pagan tradition), I’m reminded that we don’t have to choose between light and light.
We can hold multiple truths.
We can hold space.
We can hold each other.
From my heart to yours:
Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, and all the ways you celebrate!
Wishing you health, peace, sanity, and kindness.
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