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.
