YULETIDE GREETINGS

Season of symbols and mellow thoughtfulness,

welcoming angel of the returning sun;

nurturing in your cold dark stillness

Holly branches bearing blood red berries; their shiny dark leaves tipped with a sharp pain that tells of life's sweet sorrows,

And Ivy creepers binding all, as we are bound to each other and to the earth.

Old Fir cones lying on the forest floor, the seeds of new life gone - scattered into the future.

Bright stars beaming light from the distant past illuminating our present.

Gifts of Earth and Sky: symbols from long ago

of a festival to celebrate new life and the rebirth of peace.

 

Corinne Whitby

Yule 2004

 

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