Is Your Tinsel In a Tangle? Hmmmmm?

It’s Christmas… 

 

Is your tinsel in a tangle? Is your jingle out of tune?

Do you go out Christmas shopping – End up baying at the moon?

Are the decorations scattered, while the tree stands stark and bare?

Are presents waiting to be wrapped, while you just blankly stare?

Do you need some Christmas spirit, yet have no time to win it?

Would you savor this sweet season, if you only had a minute?

Well, I guess that makes you normal…. It’s the worldly state of things.

But, I wish you something better: Inspiration? Angel wings?

Please remember where it started – All this self-induced mayhem –

Think of Mary, think of Joseph, think of tiny Bethlehem.

Ponder shepherds on a hillside with their fluffy little sheep,

When some angels, with a news flash, interrupted needed sleep.

Think of frazzled, old innkeepers housing more than they were able:

But at least one, feeling mercy, offered up a humble stable.

There a baby, in the darkness, in a manger bed was born

With animals as midwives on that early Christmas morn.

O, a star hung low above them, as a signal – all aflame –

That this troubled little planet was not – would not be – the same.

Life was hard and death was certain in that far off ancient clime:

Yet Hope was born that moment, and would echo down through time.

Love was in that baby boy, so helpless and so poor:

Faith was firmly kindled, and would live forevermore.

Those folks back then were busy, too - consumed with worldly woes –

So like we who live today – that’s just how living goes.

But, thanks to God’s intention and a most ingenious plan,

There came, in very tiny form, a priceless gift to man.

The Gift of Joy, I’d have to say, can come in many guises –

The promise of Eternal Joy? The best of God’s surprises!

Attack your lists with zeal, my friends, but stop by Christmas Eve,

To contemplate a Saviour’s birth, to ponder and believe.

And through the year that’s still to come - so swiftly we draw near it -

May Love and Faith and Joy provide a lasting Christmas Spirit!

 

May Peace Be Your Constant Companion

Written with Love Just for You

The Q.O.E.

Christmas 2016

Not All Stars Are in the Sky.....