Forever Christmas
Search design-measured Christian
life
Find pleasure-time sacred beliefs
rife
Holy event annual before our eyes
Baby-born event, pure heart sighs
There inside rough stable blessed
Infant King! No worldly crest
Manger image glows sweet love
Father proud shines heaven above
Dear Savior’s birth quiet
ceremony
Lovingly adored humble testimony
White robe, sandals, softly
spoken
Promise, vow, word unbroken
Vessel’s life, baptism whitens
It, too, lives as spirit
brightens
Within thy psyche search totally
objective
No masquerade shadows holy
perspective
Scrutinize every silent thought
Microscope all “reward” it bought
In gift-time traveled challenge
true
Adventure embrace, with passion
do
Redeemer: Truth! The Light! The
Way!
Embrace sweet Grace, I humble
pray
Sing God’s glory throughout all
days
Amen! So be it! Forever
Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Christmas Eve Song
Pretty girls in Christmas dresses
red satin
Blue-suited boy decked in shoes
black patent
Spruce-scented tree bedazzled
ornaments shine
Colored lights glow hallowed
night defined
Bright-paper presents ’neath
season-branches spread
Visions of toys create desire in
sweet heads
Table white-linen display bounty
delectable
Delicious fare all, each offering
selectable
Family, friends gather to give
the world pause
Impatiently waiting the arrival
of ole Santa Claus
Deep midnight space caressing
God’s pleasant earth
White snowflakes dance, enhance
holy creation-worth
Miniature manger display adorned
tree underneath
Proclaim season-reason for
Christmas belief
Holiday sights, laughter sounds
increase mankind’s pace
Children-eyes adoringly sparkle
in Holy Spirit Grace
Absorb fully I this vision
revisited each blessed winter
Remember thou life in Christ be
at sacred holy center
Humble thyself as He on
heaven-earth night
Celebrate Him each day in eternal
delight
Amen!
Merry Christmas!
And...
Christmas Alive
Absent benefit shelter the
wretched old woman did live
By wit, guile and keen eye, her
very best she all did give
Serendipity struck as she
searched on cold bleak grey-day
Found a discarded billfold
stuffed with green money-pay
Blessed-“Good Luck!” Safely secreted
in her old canvas bag
None paid attention to such an
outcast and useless old hag
Unkempt and unclean, surviving on
crusts of stale hard-bread
Ragged clothes did she don with a
colored scarf on her head
An acquaintance grimy beggar who
had once done her wrong
Spied the hidden treasure for
which he most assuredly longed
“Could I have your wallet?” He
brazenly soft-asked
Without hesitation she handed it
over, quite unabashed
The next day being Christmas, the
vagabond sought her out
Gave back the money, frowning
eyes showed pure doubt
“There’s something more valuable
from you I should need
That goodness within you to share
without hinted greed”
Majestic Mountain Commandments
foretold
Emulate Jesus! Dare-thee live
quite so bold!
One snowy Colorado day, I gave a
vagrant all the change that I had
Christmas Joy warmed me as a “Thank
you!”-smile creased his face-sad
’Tis better give than receive,
sagacious senior folks say
’Tis true! Make it just a fun
game that you play every-day
Amen!
Merry Christmas!
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