Whether it be the experience of the sublime from the Christmas season on one end or the trauma of our cultural chaos in 2025 on the other end, I suspect we all are negotiating something within ourselves. Whether that be psychologically, environmentally, culturally, or spiritually, we have a sense that something is being compromised and that a sense of sacredness is only way out of it.
Here are two observations that grab my attention on this last Sunday of 2025:
I define “sacred” as that which pulls us beyond the bounds of our individual selves, envelops us within mystery, and gives us a glimpse into the vast, entwined, eternal network of living beings that we are in relationship with.
-- Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Sacramental vision means not only that we grow in our love of God’s ways in the world, but also that we grow in our sense of kinship with creation.
-- Christine Valters Paintner
