Christmas Can NOT be Cancelled

It is Christmas in California and the churches are closed. But faith can not be cancelled. Faith, faith in God, in each other, in better times, should burn like a candle in the dark.

It is Christmas of 2020 in California. We are in our ninth month of intermittent moving-target shutdown. It is eight months since Governor Newsom told us three weeks would flatten the curve.

In this dark year of 2020 more people have died of overdoses and despair in San Francisco than have died of Covid-19.

To save our neighbors, to save ourselves, we must light a candle of joy in the dark and lift up our voices in song.

This is Christmas in California. The church didn't sanction this. The faithful stand on the public sidewalk. We aren't even all Christian. This is Christmas. We light our candles in the dark. Because faith and goodwill can not be cancelled by hypocrites and hate.

This is Christmas. Light your candles and don't let your joy or faith be snuffed out.