[Dialogue] Gratitude for your Christmas reflections

[John Cock]

Janice, with your permission, I'd like to quote from your poem (the next to
last stanza) on my daily reflections. Thank you for sharing the wisdom.
 
In this time of grace,
 
John

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From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Janice Ulangca
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 10:12 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: [Dialogue] Gratitude for your Christmas reflections


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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