[Dialogue] Gratitude for your Christmas reflections

[Janice Ulangca]

I'm honored, John.
Janice
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Cock 
  To: 'Colleague Dialogue' 
  Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 12:10 AM
  Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Gratitude for your Christmas reflections


  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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