Archive for December 15th, 2006
“If You Are Missing Baby Jesus, Call 7162″
from Christmas With TheFamily.org - written by Jean Gietzen
When I was a child my father worked for an oil company in North Dakota. The company moved him around to different parts of the state, and at some point between one move and another, we lost our family Nativity set. Shortly before Christmas in 1943, my […]
Published by the tattooed poet on December 15th, 2006 tagged Love, Spiritual Formation, Christmas | 2 Comments »
A Lasting Christmas
By Garnett Ann Shultz
I keep a part of Christmas
For it helps to add a glow,
To the January darkness
And the February snow.
If March is cold and blustery
And though April brings us rain,
The peace and warmth of Christmas
With its happiness remain …
There’s a beauty when it’s Christmas
All the world is different then,
There’s no place for petty hatred
In […]
Published by the tattooed poet on December 15th, 2006 tagged Poetry, Christmas | Comment now »
Carol of the Bells
Hark! how the bells
Sweet silver bells
All seem to say,
“Throw cares away.”
Christmas is here
Bringing good cheer
To young and old
Meek and the bold
Ding, dong, ding, dong
That is their song
With joyful ring
All caroling
One seems to hear
Words of good cheer
From ev’rywhere
Filling the air
Oh how they pound,
Raising the sound,
O’er hill and dale,
Telling their tale,
Gaily they ring
While people sing
Songs of good […]