CHRISTmas Blessings ... and a pause

May the Song of the Season

warm your heart

and fill your soul with Love.

Christmas Blessings to

you and yours ...

I shall be away for a bit ~ a pause that refreshes ...

But please do have a comfortable cup of tea while I am gone.

Presenting this year's Baby Jesus ...

In my elementary teaching days, this time of year would be spent putting the final touches on the Christmas Play. Students from kindergarten through grade 8 would sing and tell and act out the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus. When the time came for the baby to be born, Mary ~ played by an eighth grade girl ~ would be handed a real baby from behind. The role of Baby Jesus was sometimes played by a boy and sometimes played by a girl; it all depended on which student had the youngest brother or sister at the time!

I think Mijo would make a marvelous Baby Jesus this year:

waiting ...

"We live from peak event to peak event,

from brightness to brightness,

resisting the flat terrain of ordinary time ~

the in-between time.

Waiting is the in-between time.

It calls us to be in this moment ..."

from When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd