No one can celebrate
a genuine Christmas
without being truly poor.
The self-sufficient, the proud,
those who, because they have
everything, look down on others,
those who have no need
even of God -- for them there
will be no Christmas.
Only the poor, the hungry,
those who need someone
to come on their behalf,
will have that someone.
That someone is God.
Emmanuel. God-with-us.
Without poverty of spirit
there can be no abundance of God.
-- Oscar Romero
To any and all those who might happen to come across this post, I wish you a blessed Christmas.
4 comments:
Sending you warm wishes for a blessed Christmas.
Love,
Jackie
Happy Christmas to you Pat,
Good to read the meditation and to quietly reflect on it. We watched a really good version of A Christmas Carol with my parents yesterday on Christmas Day. It was lovely seeing Scrooge transformed from his mean and miserable former self, to someone full of fun generosity.
Ha, ha... just had an amusing thing happen in the kitchen, Laura has made a new hot drink.... She was making a pot of tea, but has made coffee in the teapot by mistake. I think we will call it Toffee! Rather nice in fact. I think that the extra tannin from the tea, and the caffine from the coffee has restorative properties!
Best Wishes,
Peter, Laura, and Nigella Stopit xxx
Merry Christmas! I've been thinking about you. So nice to *see* you!
How wonderful to see that you have returned to your blog!
We who celebrated a genuine Christmas -- we know who we are, don't we?
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