We hope you had a very pleasant and happy Christmas yesterday.
Today we’re ready to help you pick up the toys that are ‘scattered and broken’ I fear – that St. Nicholas won’t come again for a year…
And by that time all the Christmas good cheer will have to be renewed. (J) – Which does happen every year—we hope.
Well… we do have a more permanent outlook if we set aside the ‘temporal things’ that disappear and break and have to be replaced and all that… and turn our eyes to the skies – as the poets say and concentrate – or perhaps the better word is meditate on things that don’t get lost or broken so quickly.
My memory was (and still is to a degree) that there’s a period of sadness that seems to follow the highlights of good cheer and family fellowship.
The sobering moment for me this year came during the run-up to Christmas. Working on JUST A MINUTE almost every day – seems to get me caught up in the moment – especially the election moment that will come up in 2012 – when I believe there is so much at stake. So… I need to concentrate on the eternal and not be so caught up in what is temporary and going to be caught up by thieves and stolen.
Well… that’s the way the world works. And up to now we haven’t known anything but existence in this world. But my younger brother Jimmy, who lives in Virginia where we grew up together, have been apart for something like 60+ years and while we’ve kept in touch it’s not the same as living in the same house, eating at the same table and all that goes with it. So… as they years go by I find myself being more and more nostalgic for the ‘good old days.’ (Maybe they weren’t so good as we imagined.) Especially since we’ve had a broader taste of ageing and the difficulties that entails.
All that to say I’m finding as I near the 80+ mark at the end of next month… well it’s a bit intimidating. Now that I’ve gotten started on the subject I’ll probably revisit it in the coming week between the holidays. I hope you’ll join us.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack & Barbara
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“JUST A MINUTE”
WHO ARE THE WISE MEN?
Just a Minute: Christmas was yesterday – but a question lingers in the air today from B.Y. Williams poem: Who are the Wise Men?
Who were the wise men of long ago?
Not Herod, fearful lest he lose his throne;
Not Pharisee’s too proud to claim their own;
Not priests and scribes whose province was to know;
Nor money-changers running to and fro;
But three who traveled, weary and alone
With dauntless faith because before them shone
The Star that led them to a manger low.
Who are the Wise Men now when all is told?
Not men of science; not the great and strong;
Not those who wear a kingly diadem;
Not those whose eager hands pile high the gold;
But those amid the tumult and the throng
Who follow still the Star of Bethlehem.
--B.Y. Williams
So since that wonderful, sacred, worshipful day is gone until another year rolls round. We’ll cap our cheer for now and aim to live for HIM preparing for the coming year to trust HE will be coming soon.
<> I’m Jack Buttram (END)
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