Christmas Eve

on this eve of eve’s

when we feel love

and loneliness

when we feel

our failures

and our joys

at their most intense

on this eve of eve’s

we recognize something profound

that we live

in that place

always

always

where sacred

and human meet

on that boundary

between the ugly and the sublime

where all that is good and beautiful

collides with all

that is hateful and destructive

on this eve of eve’s

we feel the world tilt

on its axis

and know

in our deepest place

that love

wins

Sorry haters

Sorry those who would aid the rich and hurt the poor

your moments

your delusions

may carry the moment

but in the depth of eternity

love wins

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I salute you!

There is nothing I can give you that you have not;

But there is much that, while I cannot give you

Can take

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts  

Find rest in it today

Find heaven

No peace lies in the future

That is not hidden in this present instant

Take peace

The gloom of the world is but a shadow

Behind it, yet within our reach

Is joy

Take joy

And so at this Christmas time I greet you

And with the prayer that for you

Now and forever

The day breaks the

Shadows flee away

Fra Giovanni  (1513)