"O CHRISTAS TREE, O CHRISTMAS TREE"

Dear All of Us,

"O Christmas Tree  O Christmas Tree"

Come to think of it,
and for all the busyness and buzz of the season
let's be sure to do just that,
the Christmas Tree is a right at home symbol
of living centered in Christ.

To have a Christmas Tree 
we have to rearrange our living room.
Being centered in Christ 
we have to rearrange our living,
adjust our thinking, our values, our life style.

As we rearrange our living room,
we discover dirt, dust, debris
underneath the accustomed arrangement
of our living room.
Being centered in Christ exposes 
some underpinnings of our living 
that need to be cleared.

The Christmas Tree is "ever" green.
It lives and thrives whatever the environment.
So, too, ourselves centered in the ever living Christ.

In this the darkest time of the year
we string all sorts of lights
on the Christmas Tree.
In Christ,
"the light of the world",
we defy the darkness within and about us.

Around the Christmas Tree
there are all sorts of wonderful gifts.
Centered in Christ we are gifted and we gift.

And of happy course, 
there is the nativity set 
centered amongst those gifts.
In its simple sacredness
it proclaims Divine Love aborning 
in our humanness.

"O Christmas Tree  O Christmas Tree"
a right at home symbol 
of living centered in Christ.

From my heart and home to yours
              Christ Love.

               John Frank


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