No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in
today. Take heaven!
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this
present little instant. Take peace!
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet
within our reach is joy.
There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but
see - and to see we have only to look.
I beseech you to look!
….Welcome it, grasp it, touch the angel's hand that
brings it to you.
Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe
me, that angel's hand is there,
the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing
presence.
Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They,
too, conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty
- beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.
Courage, then, to claim it, that is all. But courage you
have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through
unknown country, home.
And so, at this time, I greet you.
Not quite as the world sends greetings,
but with profound esteem and with the prayer
that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the
shadows flee away.
Excerpts from a letter was written by Fra Giovanni
Giocondo
to his friend, Countess Allagia Aldobrandeschi on
Christmas Eve, 1513
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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 interface
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
Rejoice lovers
Even as we wait, even as the dawn struggles to break
let us take heaven
take peace
take love
for the light has come into the darkness
and the darkness cannot overcome it
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