It is Christmas eve here in Montana. The snow lays on the ground cool and white and fresh, not cruel. our family is skiing. I am typing, playing the piano and singing. Trying to get a little more centered for the day and the tomorrows.
Our Iraqi war veteran at church struggles with his life as do thousands of soldiers and 100,000′s of civilians.
What are we going to do?
“Du bis genoug” German for “You are enough.” You are enough to make the difference. No matter how you are, you are enough to make the difference.
Do not give up hope. Have all the hope you need to see the good and do it. To resist the evil and transform it.
Friday afternoon a fawn and her mother were eating from our bird feeder’s droppings. The fawn was very small, a late birth this summer. she will probably have a tough time making it through the winter. I will try to remember to put some grain out each evening on the ground for her and her mother. Who knows who will get it.
I cannot bare to have another child die, whether it be a fawn or a human, needlessly.
Nature has a system of creating extra so that the species won’t die out. This little fawn outside my window who stood her ground as I came up the sidewalk, may have to die in the cold and snow and lack of greens this winter. do our children have to die of hunger, or war, or terrorism, or shootings?
Can’t we raise our children so that they don’t have to grow up to be soldiers? Can’t we be good enough parents so that our kids don’t grow up to be shooters? If they are depressed and demented, can’t we recognize that and get them help, for their own sakes and for the safety of others?
We have a lot to do.
Would you pray with me? “Dear sweet God, please give us the knowledge of the good and the courage to do it. Make us believe that we are enough to be your hands and heart on this earth. Amen.”
Merry Christmas!
Tony the spaniel died at 11 months. A saint. Perfect, kind, good, obedient, loving. Why him?