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Monthly Archives: December 2014
New Year’s Poem, for anyone who has a friend in a Memory Loss Unit “Auld Lang Syne”
Should old acquaintance be forgot the story, face and name, through loss of years — both joys and tears – yet we shall be the same. From old acquaintance and from new – CNA, PT, and nurse, one single touch … Continue reading
If Paul directed the Christmas pageant
How Paul’s advice would have emerged if he directed a Christmas pageant (instead of practicing a homiletic style that puts teenagers to sleep in second story windows) Rejoice in God always, again I will say – eat the cookie, hang … Continue reading
Three Poems for Christmas from Aotearoa
Three poems in very different moods from Beverley Osborn for our Christmas morning! May yours be a blessed one. What a Surprise! The world headlines blazon disaster,misery, despair, hatred and hunger, but we sing our Christmas songs of hope, joy, … Continue reading
Christmas Eve Promise
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 This year my Advent daily prayers shared here have been for children – many different children, the child in me, the child in you. And now for you – wassail! God, this you know … These … Continue reading
Advent prayers for children of those in law enforcement
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 God I pray for children of those in law enforcement — Some mourn parents fallen in the line of duty this year, last year or many years ago. Some cringe at cheap stereotypes. Hurting or angry, … Continue reading
Prayer for the child in me
Monday, December 22, 2014 God, I pray for the kid the ghost of Christmas past shows me all this long journey through my scrooge, grinch, can’t-hear-the-bell-anymore reflection. I pray for how being a kid hurt so much I … Continue reading
Advent prayer — for children of thunder
Sunday, December 21, 2014 God, I pray for children of thunder the Boanerges with the juvie record and tats where the sun don’t shine, the boy with booze in his locker, the girl whose mouth could strip the paint off … Continue reading
Advent prayer … Frozen
Saturday, December 20 2014 God, who sits beside every child watching “Frozen,” rejoice with those who recognize themselves as Elsa, with her gift and disability, her cause to be mocked and chased and to run away, her reason to learn … Continue reading
Te Harinui — prayer for indigenous children
Two hundredth anniversary today, December 19, 2014 of the Christian faith coming to Aotearoa welcomed by Ruatara, son of Te Pahi, the paramount Chief of Nga Puhi God, for indigenous children, for aboriginal children, for native children, for first nations … Continue reading
A Poem for Christmas from India
A Poem for Christmas, 2014 by Savithri Devanesen of Roofs for the Roofless in Kilpauk, Chennai, India This Christmas I greet you, dear friends, with the warmth and joy the Nativity always brings, with the accelerated speed of the age … Continue reading
Gifts in Open Hands 