Merry Christmas!

And so this is Christmas.

Tiny white lights twinkle on the tree, the balls and stringed boughs of tiny glass beads glitter. And at the top of the tree, the angel, wings spread wide, heralds in good tidings of comfort and joy. Beneath the tree, brightly wrapped parcels are stacked as Ellie sleeps on guard at the edge of the treasures yet to be uncovered.

I sit in candlelight. The house wrapped in a warm, blanket of sleep, The chanting of Stile Antico playing softly in the background.

There is peace in my world.

May there be peace in yours.

Merry Christmas my friends. Your presence here throughout the year has added joy and laughter to my world. Your presence is the present of friendship, of shared experience, of Love.

Thank you everyone!

Merry Christmas. May the blessings of this holy season fill your world with wonder. May you know the Love the Christchild brings every year as we celebrate this holy of days together. No matter our faith. No matter our skin tone, or political affiliations. No matter the depth of our pockets or the thickness of the soles of our shoes, may we all be united today, and everyday, through Peace. Hope. Love and Joy.

Wishing you and your world the blessings of this season of joy.

And... A Christmas Eve song for everyone.

I was moved in the midst of the chaos of gift-buying and wrapping and preparing for this day, to write a song of Advent.  It was, as they say, the spirit moving within me for I know not where the song came from. And then, I decided to record it, me singing my words -- to allow myself to be vulnerable in that moment of creating and to share my song with you.

Namaste.



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The Advent of the Christchild

Christmas Eve looms

bright as a star

shining on high

guiding

shepherds

wisemen too

to the one they seek

Allelluia

Allelluia

a savior’s born

of Mary

hark the herald

angels sing

this child will bring

Peace.

Hope and Love

this child will bring

Peace.

Hope and Love

Mary in dark

manger lies

swaddling the babe

while Joseph stands guard

and angels sing

on high

Alleluia

alleluia

a savior’s born

of Mary

Oh sinner man

fall down on bended knee

this child has come

to free your soul

and set your spirit free

Alleluia

alleluia

a savior’s born

of Mary

  

Good tidings reign

o’er the land

and constellations

shimmer

a child is born

to save the world

and angels sing on high.

Alleluia

alleluia

a savior’s born

of Mary

Alleluia

alleluia

a savior’s born

of Mary