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#4113 - Friday, December 24, 2010 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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Nollaig
Shona/ Written on Christmas Eve, 1531 -- Fra Giovanni
From: Gabriel Rosenstock
Written on
Christmas Eve, 1513
I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes
deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have
not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot
give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find
rest in it today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future
which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace!
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet
within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and
glory in darkness, could we but see. And to see, we have
only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver. But we, judging its gifts by
their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard.
Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living
splendor, woven of love by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp
it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you.
Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that
angel's hand is there. The gift is there and the wonder of
an overshadowing presence. Your joys, too, be not content
with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath
its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your
heaven. Courage then to claim it; that is all! But courage
you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrims together,
wending through unknown country home.
And so, at this time, I greet you, not quite as the world sends
greetings,
but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now
and
forever, the day breaks and shadows flee away.
~ Fra Giovanni ~