Thursday, December 19, 2019
"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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