The journey to Christmas Eve requires patience and contemplation. It is no coincidence that Christmas lands right after the longest, darkest night of the year. The soul, too, requires a long night’s journey to its center, even longer than I could describe with Twitter’s 140-character limit.
So, like a lot of my friends and family who are in love with social media like Twitter, I am struggling to find balance.
I discover that it is in moderation–the medium–that I best find meaning. I don’t have to fast from digital media, but neither do I have to allow my extravagance to “degenerate into cant and hypocrisy.”
This is adapted from “Contemplating Christmas,” written by Mary Coudal, which was published on the Women of the ELCA blog on December 18, 2013.