Dear All of Us,
My oldest daughter
just had a birthday.
She asked our family
for a unique present.
Would each of us gift her
with a time and place
to be together,
to just be present to each other.
I invited her for a leisurely Sunday stroll
through the National Arboretum here in DC.
The present of presence.
The birth of Jesus is God asking us
for a unique present,
to be together,
to be present to each other.
The present of presence.
MERRY PRESENCE
John Frank
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