Dec 24 2008
The True Work of Christmas
The Work of Christmas
When the song of angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and the princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
to find the lost,
to heal the broken,
to feed the hungry,
to release the prisoner,
to rebuild the nations,
to bring peace among brothers,
to make music in the heart.
— Howard Thurman
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Merry Christmas to you, too!
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Thanks!
As a pagan who doesn’t celebrate Christmas in the religious sense, Yule marks the point where the year stops getting darker and begins to get lighter (in the Northern Hemisphere where the festival originated anyway).
These words are also about re-birth and renewal, so still strike a chord with me, and should give everyone hope for te new year, including those it mentions.
Although it is over for 2008, I’d like to remind readers of this old English childrens’ rhyme
Christmas is coming
The goose is getting fat
Please to put a penny
In the poor man’s hat
I ask my Goddess that by Yule 2009, there will be less famine, less war and suffering, and less poverty in our world.
Jenny Fletchers last blog post..Still digging for victory