A Christmas wish. (from g f xavier)

A Christmas and New Year wish from G.F.

Why to wish?

People feed on words, live by words, would fall apart without them.

We almost never see reality. What we see is a reflection of it, in the form of words and concepts, which we then proceed to take for reality.

Christmas is the time when God makes a descent upon men.

 One Christmas day a father was helping his children to build a snowman. A plane was passing over head and the smallest child gazing at it said, “Daddy how do people climb up into the sky to get into planes?”

“They don’t, Child”, replied the father. “The planes come down out of the sky to collect the people.”

This little anecdote captures the message of Christmas. We don’t have to go up into the sky to find God; he came down on earth to find us. This is Christmas.

May this Christmas be an especially happy one for you, filled with every happiness and lots of good things, too, the kind that will bring good luck, success and prosperity in everything that you do, in the New Year too.

I have a poem for you.

All of yester year in behind us

So the past with sobs and sighs.

Walking, we tread the virgin year.

Year of our ‘life’

Year of all ‘yes’

Year of ‘triumphs’.

So I never gaze behind

Not to be a pillar of salt.

            I am reminded of the words of Susan longacra “Reach for the stars even if you have to stand on the cactus”. We have nothing to look back only to become pillars of salt. We aim at prospects and not retrospect.

Let us make a prayer together “O come, Emmanuel, God’s presence among us, our king, our Judge, our source of strength, after all these years we marvel that you have been born into our world. Give us eyes to see you and a heart to welcome you with deep love and gratitude. The distance between you and us be measured by the distance of us with the service to God’s poor. Remind that Jesus is our first love and that anything else is secondary. Let 2011 be a year in which our life becomes a brighter reflection of who you are.

Ring out the old, Ring in the new, ring, happy bells, across the snow; the year in gang, let his go, ring out the false, ring in the true.