December 22, 2008
Contents
- Something for Your Heart
- Surf Report
- Forgettable Fact
- Potent Quotables
- Uh, That's Funny?
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1. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
The House of Christmas
by G. K. Chesterton
There fared a mother driven forth
Out of an inn to roam;
In the place where she was homeless
All men are at home.
The crazy stable close at hand,
With shaking timber and shifting sand,
Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand
Than the square stones of Rome.
For men are homesick in their homes,
And strangers under the sun,
And they lay on their heads in a foreign land
Whenever the day is done.
Here we have battle and blazing eyes,
And chance and honour and high surprise,
But our homes are under miraculous skies
Where the yule tale was begun.
A Child in a foul stable,
Where the beasts feed and foam;
Only where He was homeless
Are you and I at home;
We have hands that fashion and heads that know,
But our hearts we lost – how long ago!
In a place no chart nor ship can show
Under the sky's dome.
This world is wild as an old wives' tale,
And strange the plain things are,
The earth is enough and the air is enough
For our wonder and our war;
But our rest is as far as the fire-drake swings
And our peace is put in impossible things
Where clashed and thundered unthinkable wings
Round an incredible star.
To an open house in the evening
Home shall men come,
To an older place than Eden
And a taller town than Rome.
To the end of the way of the wandering star,
To the things that cannot be and that are,
To the place where God was homeless
And all men are at home.
2. SURF REPORT
~ Christmas Around the World
Christmas traditions and celebrations are as different as languages around the world. At this site, you'll discover Christmas traditions from over thirty different countries.
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around
~ Christmas Elf Game
http://www.flasharcade.com/action-games/play-137/christmas-elf-game.html
3. FORGETTABLE FACT
The department store Montgomery Ward created Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as a character for an advertising campaign.
4. POTENT QUOTABLES
"I'm ever and always a stranger to grace. I need this annual angel visitation to know the virgin conceives and God is with us."
~ Eugene Peterson
"To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult every year."
~ E.B. White
5. UH, THAT'S FUNNY?
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected become the expected?
