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Each Wednesday, Tim Carson shares
the wonderings of heart and mind and the inspirations and quandaries of the spirit. You are invited to wonder along with him through the telling of stories, reflections on faith and observations on the events that shape our lives.
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Wednesday Wonder
December 28, 2016
The tradition of the twelve days of Christmas is exceedingly simple: Christmas Day begins the festival of Christmas which unfolds for twelve days. The famous song of the same name reminds us to add something each day in order to drive the meaning into our bones. If you start on December 25 - the first day being Christmas itself - the twelve days escort you right up to the steps of Epiphany, which is January 6, also call Kings Day in other cultures). Epiphany recounts the arrival of the Magi who have followed the star, the light in the heavens.
Wouldn't it be fun to mark this time between the times, Christmas Day to Epiphany, by, say, lighting a candle for each day? Or singing the chorus of We Three Kings each day? Or giving the gift of a lit star to someone else each day? Or making a Christmastide phone call to someone different each day? Or volunteering at the shelter? Christmastide is meant to be savored ...
Here is my gift to you this Christmastide, two of the verses of Christina Rossetti in her famous In the Bleak Midwinter:
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty,
Jesus Christ.
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