It’s time to put aside our troubles and celebrate.
At Christmas, your creditors, competitors, and even the neighbor who complains about your son’s electric guitar offers a smile and wishes you well.
Even Donald Trump will quietly acknowledge Hillary Clinton as a cheery, charitable and clever woman. Well, that may be hoping for a bit too much.
But this is the season where we manage to reach into our reservoirs of charity and optimism to proclaim that in the new year we will find peace with our adversaries, lose those extra pounds, and finally live within our means.
We embrace hope, in part, because we remain so powerfully challenged.
Coping with terrorism, solving environmental problems threatening the planet, and managing the economy to accomplish a just prosperity are tough tasks even for gifted minds like those of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel. But since biblical times tribal enmities, human excess and poverty have bedeviled our golden vision for humanity.
Still, we live at the cusp of a new and better age.
