ALL YEAR LONG!

 

ALL YEAR LONG!

CHRISTMAS is coming=

The Lord is COMING!

Don't you wish we could-

FEEL the good will and peace

All year long?

ALL YEAR LONG!

Feel the love and compassion

For each other=

All year long

“In the tender compassion

Of our God-

The dawn from high

Shall break upon us=

To SHINE on those

Who dwell in darkness

And the shadow of death

And guide our feet

Into the way of PEACE”                                                                                         Luke1:78-79

Today=the canticle of Zechariah

Calls our attention

To God's DIRECT INTERVENTION

In our lives

God called to Zechariah

And brought him his son John

WHEN it looked like=

He could never

Have a child

With his wife-Elizabeth 

TENDERLY=God comes to us

And embraces us=

God comes to us

During Christmas season

And ALL YEAR LONG!

And our God remains with us

All year long!

“A thousand YEARS

In your sight

Are like a day

That has just one by

Or like a watch

In the night”                                                                                                           Psalm 90:4

“But do not forget

This one thing

With the Lord

A day is like

A THOUSAND YEARS

And a thousand YEARS

Are like a day”                                                                                                     2 Peter 3:8

“He seized the dragon

That ancient serpent=

Who is the devil=or Satan

And bound him

For a THOUSAND YEARS”                                                                              Revelation 20:2

We have WAITED all year long

For the COMING of our Jesus=

We have prepared

All through ADVENT

We await the coming of Christ=

The LIGHT of the world

And his INTERVENTION

Zechariah's voice

Bursts with POETIC PRAISE

And gratitude=He reminds us

Of our own role

In PROCLAIMING the

Good news of God and Christ=

And to tell the world

ALL YEAR LONG!

We may walk in darkness

But Christ is the LIGHT=

So we are never alone

ALL YEAR LONG!

“If you REMAIN in me

And my words

REMAIN in you

Ask whatever you wish

And it will be

Done for you”                                                                                                     John 15:7

CHRISTMAS DAY

Comes but once a year

But our Lord

Remains with us-

Guiding us towards peace

In everything that we do

ALL YEAR LONG!

In Jesus' name=and in the name=of our FOREVER GUIDING FATHER!

Robert P. Wallman

12-23-20 and 12-22-2021 and 12-16-2022

Ps        INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Deborah A. Meister