It is a gift

After 2 Corinthians 8:7-9 

Faith is a gift,

as are speech

and encouragement

and knowledge.

Faith is a gift,

as are zeal and love

and the love for others

and the love 

for each other.

You may not think

that the act of giving

is a gift, but so it is,

echoing the gift

of him who became

poor so we could

become rich.

 

Photograph by Tyler Lagalo via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

No Room in the Inn – What Inn? – Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

Frost warning, Christmastide – poem by Jody Lee Collins at Poetry & Made Things.

 

Christmas in a Foreign Land – Esther Greenfield at A Life Overseas. 

 

Let It Be – poem by Sandra Heska King at On Aging and Other Adventures.

 

Nostalgia, Longing, and Christmas Joy in “The Bleak Midwinter” – LuElla D’Amico at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

“A Christmas Carol”: adapted by Talbot Hook, read by Andrew Benson Brown – Society of Classical Poets.