Can I wish ever'body a Merry Christmas?!?

Here we are again, dear friends, in touch to share our year,

And wishin’ each and every one the finest season’s cheer.

This year just swept through with an attitude,

tho’ with more ups than downs overall;

keenly counting blessings with gratitude

makes good times easier to recall.

Still, can’t entirely ignore this year’s loss,

Mindy’s mom taken home to The Lord;

but she, baptized after counting the cost,

left full-redeemed as promised in His Word!

As if that’s not enough, Newtown was heard…

eleven days before this celebration,

a horrific evil, by them incurred,

shook this town, this state, and this nation.!

Their Christmas stolen, was how some folks felt,

couldn’t be more removed from the fact:

The newborn Christ, before Whom wise men knelt,

the sole hope that can counter this act!

And it’s that hope I carry through my day,

the biggest thing that keeps me upbeat:

knowing that, if I live my life “The Way”,

nothing could my forever defeat!

And I’m happy that we’re not traveling,

while saddened for those folks we’ll not see,

but if I any further unravel,

the me that they see will not be me!

Yet there’s a glimmer on the horizon, because this year as Thanksgiving gift,

a new li’l rescue came into our lives, who, for all those involved, was a lift!

Her name, Molly, was perfect…suited a disposition so dear,

So I’ll end with...MERRY CHRISTMAS…and to all a most blessed New Year!!!

RAH © 12/21/12