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Monday, December 26, 2011

When the Work of Christmas Begins


Writer Esther Gillette eloquently describes Christmas as 

candle 
with haloed ray
quietly giving 
 itself away

Christmas is, indeed, a light that keeps on shining, a gift that keeps on giving, as Howard Thurman has written:

When the song of the angels is stilled
When the star in the sky is gone
When the kings and princes are home
When the shepherds are back with their flocks
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 people everywhere.

May the good work of Christmas begin in each of us.

2 comments:

ssquiresc said...

Hello - this lovely meditation, "The Work of Christmas," was written by Howard Thurman.

harvspot said...

Thanks so much. I'll make that change in my post.