[Dialogue] Gratitude for your Christmas reflections

[Janice Ulangca]

To all who sent their greetings, a deeply-felt thank you.  The pictures were fine and the testimonies to an abundantly-lived year and reports of service were wonderful.  

My activities have been much more modest, so I did not plan to share my "news" letter widely.  But for the first time in several years I was also able to write a poem - something that had been a tradition in our family.  So I will send it along, with my admiration and wishes for the very best to all of you.

Janice Ulangca


                From the Silence
                
                Who knows what may come from a quiet day
                Perhaps deep peacefulness
                Sometimes fresh new ways of seeing
                Or on rare days
                A poem or a song                

                Because I've hushed the thoughts demanding I report to busyness
                A thorny question's answer may appear
                When suddenly I see
                The pieces that I need
                Were always there

                Who knows what may yet come
                From that Silent Night
                The special child was born
                Who turned so much upside down
                He fills us still with challenges and wonder

                A wise one I admire declares this Holy Child
                Not born to die, but born to live

                So you and I might have the chance to see LIFE

                Running on all cylinders

                Extravagantly, lovingly poured out with joy

                

                This year if I cannot find the time

                For every now and then a quiet day

                Or to consider star fallout from that Silent Night 

                Then as I make the choices that create my life  

                I must find the way to change  

                                                                                J.U. 2006

                                                                                                                           



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Janice Ulangca
3413 Stratford Drive
Vestal, NY  13850
607-797-4595
aulangca at stny.rr.com
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