LIGHT IS COME! A repost from last year, with the addition of a 30 second soundbite from my folk scene days of the early 80s: a real finger-in-the ear job... or two, in my case! :)) Be exceedingly glad that I am not close enough to come a-carolling to your front door this Christmas time! Grace, peace and many blessings to you and yours as Light waxes afresh upon our world...

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"BEHOLD!

Let me share with you a mystery:

Close your eyes,
hold out your arms
and let me place in them
a tiny, newborn baby...

See how your heart goes out to it at once;
See how you long to hold it close to your breast,
so that its innocence, purity and vulnerability
might penetrate there.

Feel its peaceful, gentle movements;
its easy breathing.

How quiet and still it makes you.
How its warmth fills your body with joy.

How fresh and new –
yet how ageless and eternal
seems this source of life.

Consider how the rest of the world
seems remote and far off
as you hold this child;
in this moment, you stand together
outside of time...

* * * *

The baby in your arms is the Christchild;
I give to you my Spirit
in exactly the same way.

The Spirit and the flesh
are My Son, my Chosen One
in whom I delight –
precious beyond measure.

I offer Them to you."