Wishing You the Gifts and Blessings of This Joyous Season

I send each of you my sincerest best wishes for a holiday season filled with light and love, 
and a New Year filled with good health, happiness, inspiration, and poetry.

By way of sharing, here's a poem I wrote when I was 10 years old.  

What Is Christmas?

 By Adele Kenny, 1958 (age 10) 

A certain crispness in the air?

Joyous carols everywhere?

Giving and receiving gifts?

Or – is Christmas more than this?

Stockings hanging in a row?

Children dreaming dreams of snow?

A day that’s filled with light and bliss?

Or – is Christmas more than this?

Thoughts of what will Santa bring?

Toys and games and lots of things?

Under mistletoe, a kiss?

Or – is Christmas more than this?

It is the birth of Christ the King –

listen to the church bells ring!

A star led all to where he lay

in a tiny manger filled with hay.

This is Christmas!

To worship him came Eastern kings,

and angels hovered on golden wings.

A chorus sang above the land,

while shepherds knelt to touch his hand.

This is Christmas!

Today we have our gifts and joys,

grownups’ comforts and children’s toys,

but still we worship as they did then

the baby born with love for men.

This is Christmas!

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Regular posts will resume on January 14, 2017.

In the meantime, I wish you peace and all good things.