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Love peace and joy at Christmas

23 Saturday Dec 2017

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It may seem hackneyed to many to wish everyone joy and peace at Christmas. Of course I wish people joy all year round but the season can focus our attention on higher things rather than the battle to keep making ends meet and feeding the family.

Whatever your circumstances I hope that you have what you wish for – at least in part – it may be that it is never good to have all that we desire.

Christmas Quatrain

Celebrate God’s gift of joy

above the transient broken toy,

Dedicate these festive days

to loving kindness in countless ways.

Denny Bradbury© May you be safe and well and find joy this Christmas.

Thomas Hardy’s Glorious Christmas Poem – The Oxen

24 Wednesday Dec 2014

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I love this poem, although it was perhaps written because of Hardy’s struggle with faith, this seems to me to reflect on hope over uncertainty. Without hope where are we?

The Oxen – Thomas Hardy

Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
“Now they are all on their knees,”
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.

We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in the strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling then.

So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
“Come; see the oxen kneel

In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,”
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.

A happy Christmas wherever you may be. Denny Bradbury

Spirit of Christmas

22 Monday Dec 2014

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I am sure that the Spirit of Christmas means different things to people depending on upbringing; culture; belief or experience. Whatever you believe I wish you great joy and peace in this unsettled world. Respect for each other and, where differences are profound, the ability to talk not fight.

This is part of a much longer poem for Christmas Eve:

Celebrate God’s gift of joy
above the transient broken toy;
Dedicate these festive days
to loving kindness in countless ways.

From me to you, Happy Christmas and a healthy and above all peaceful New Year.

Denny Bradbury – poet & lover of Nature