I set up the nativity scene again this year with the same plaster figurines I used to set it up as a child. When I placed the Child ‘wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger’, I felt cold, the cold of Humanity overwhelmed by hatred and the violence of power and money. The cold of war, of all wars. The cold of Nature ravaged and plundered. The cold of suffering. Then I covered the Child with a blanket of solidarity with his land and his people, today however a symbol of solidarity with all suffering humanity. That Child born poor in Palestine yesterday as today, asks us for peace and justice.
Peace for humanity, Peace with Nature, Peace in our hearts.
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