tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post5665522256202066894..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: Christmas?....it's just a myth!Richard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-77051918702669049192013-12-21T06:42:21.572+00:002013-12-21T06:42:21.572+00:00Ian, you are right but there are also those who ac...Ian, you are right but there are also those who acknowledge Christmas as a sort of Christian folk tale and that is so very sad.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-59698740822737252013-12-21T06:40:27.849+00:002013-12-21T06:40:27.849+00:00Tony, it is just so tragic that they accept the se...Tony, it is just so tragic that they accept the secular aspects but sidestep the real meaning. Good to hear from you.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-73352369501799002442013-12-21T04:12:09.951+00:002013-12-21T04:12:09.951+00:00Ian pretty much sums up what I was thinking on the...Ian pretty much sums up what I was thinking on the way home from work tonight — call it Winterval, or Saturnalia, or Festivus, whatever they're all celebrating isn't Christmas but a pale shadow that merely shares a spot on the calendar.Anthony S. Laynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14807873592896092136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-67073759174978694282013-12-20T18:13:39.939+00:002013-12-20T18:13:39.939+00:00...*of
Ian in England, again...*of<br /><br />Ian in England, againAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-58612418557391416632013-12-20T18:12:09.868+00:002013-12-20T18:12:09.868+00:00I think *they* are celebrating what perhaps should...I think *they* are celebrating what perhaps should be called "Winterval". It's nothing to do with Christmas, except that it happens at the same time of the year. Let them celebrate their Winterval, with its singing and feasting and revelling, its snowy scenes and robins and gifts. It's OK. As for me and my house, though, we celebrate Christmas, Jesus Christ's birthday, on 25 December each year, with prayer and thanksgiving, feasting and gifts and sending cards, much the same as *they* do, but in celebration os Something quite different.<br />Ian in EnglandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-84060137140751741272013-12-20T13:38:16.868+00:002013-12-20T13:38:16.868+00:00"To celebrate a myth."
SANCTUARY STARS
... "To celebrate a myth."<br /><br />SANCTUARY STARS<br /><br />To all my friends<br />I cannot see<br />I'll pray for you<br />On bended knee<br /><br />On Christmas morn<br />At stable's side<br />Where Christ the King<br />Once did abide.<br /><br />Amidst the stench<br />Of creatures low<br />Yet star above<br />Sent down its glow.<br /><br />First Sanctuary light<br />Bold thing<br />A beacon for<br />The hidden King.<br /><br />And when bad men<br />Snuff earthly light<br />Stars are born<br />To light the night.<br /><br />That's why He put the stars<br />So much,<br />Up in the sky<br />Where men can't touch.<br /><br />For candled flames<br />Men can bring low,<br />Sanctuary stars<br />Won't lose their glow.<br /><br />So at each stable<br />Be not forlorn<br />If bad men say<br />"He was not born!"<br /><br />Look up O man<br />The sky is flooded...<br />With Sanctuary light<br />Sanctuary-star studded!<br />Long-Skirtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00791967605782446951noreply@blogger.com