Holly is an ancient symbol of the season, a proof that life endures even when all seems dead. It is beautiful , but it is also fierce, as anyone who has been stabbed by a holly leaf can tell you. Beautiful is good, but it turns out that fierce is sometimes what gets you through the winter.
How has being fierce helped you to get through?
I was never “taught” to be fierce. Therefore, the very word scares me. However, if in truth I can consider it as being determined in the face of a great threat I can deal with that idea. In my mind, I am determined to accept my own concept of being a Unitarian-Universalist against other religious beliefs, I am curious about other beliefs, want to be educated about them but am determined to use my own UU way to live and die in my chosen way.